Varicoceles;Varicoceler

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 171, Issue 47, 2009, Pages

  Fode, Mikkel ^a   Sønksen, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VARICOCELE;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 77954845683     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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