Management options of varicoceles

Indian Journal of Urology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-73

  Chan, Peter ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Microsurgical varicocelectomy; sclerotherapy; varicocele embolization; varicocelectomy; varicoceles

Indexed keywords

SCLEROSING AGENT; TESTOSTERONE;

AIR EMBOLISM; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTERY PUNCTURE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; AZOOSPERMIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; ERGONOMICS; FEMORAL NERVE; FLANK PAIN; FLUOROSCOPY; GENITAL INJURY; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTROPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE INJURY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LAPAROSCOPIC VARICOCELECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGERY; MICROSURGICAL SUBINGUINAL VARICOCELECTOMY; NERVE INJURY; OPEN VARICOCELECTOMY; OPERATION DURATION; PERCUTANEOUS EMBOLIZATION; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE RISK; ROBOT ASSISTED VARICOCLECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SCLEROTHERAPY; SCROTAL PAIN; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS FUNCTION; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINE RETENTION; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY; VAS DEFERENS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 79954534239     PISSN: 09701591     EISSN: 19983824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-1591.78431     Document Type: Conference Paper

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