Clinical Parameters and Semen Analysis in 716 Austrian Patients With Varicocele

Urology

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1069-1073

  Mohamad Al Ali, Badereddin ^a   Marszalek, Martin ^b   Shamloul, Rany ^c,d   Pummer, Karl ^a   Trummer, Harald ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b SMZ Ost Donauspital ^*  (Austria)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; AUSTRIA; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TESTOSTERONE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 77951667049     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.11.042     Document Type: Article

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