Review of current varicocelectomy techniques and their outcomes

BJU International

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1157-1172

  Diegidio, Paul ^a   Jhaveri, Jay K ^a   Ghannam, Suzanne ^a   Pinkhasov, Ruben ^a   Shabsigh, Ridwan ^a   Fisch, Harry ^b  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

infertility; outcome(s); technique(s); varicocele; varicocelectomy

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

HUMANS; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 80052819414     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09959.x     Document Type: Review

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