Prevalence of Testicular Size Discrepancy in Infertile Men With and Without Varicoceles

Urology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 566-568

  Patel, Sutchin R ^a   Sigman, Mark ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTICULAR SIZE DISCREPANCY; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREVALENCE; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 77649192411     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.08.084     Document Type: Article

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