The role of urological surgery in male infertility

Human Fertility

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 233-241

  Pisipati, Sailaja ^a   Pearcy, Richard ^a  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Male factor infertility; sperm; surgical technique

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BROMPHENIRAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; EPHEDRINE; FLUOXETINE; IMIPRAMINE; MIDODRINE; PAROXETINE; TAMSULOSIN;

BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EJACULATION DISORDER; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GENETIC DISORDER; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGICAL EPIDIDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION; PERCUTANEOUS EPIDIDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION; PEYRONIE DISEASE; PREMATURE EJACULATION; PROSTHESIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SCROTUM DISORDER; TESTIS BIOPSY; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VARICOCELECTOMY; VASECTOMY; VASOVASOSTOMY;

ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; VARICOCELE; VASOVASOSTOMY;

EID: 78650016140     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14647273.2010.532579     Document Type: Review

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