Shunt-type and stop-type varicocele in adolescents: Prognostic value of these two different hemodynamic patterns

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1091-1096

  Mohseni, Mohammad Javad ^a   Nazari, Hamid ^a   Amini, Erfan ^a   Javan Farazmand, Niloufar ^a   Baghayee, Arash ^a   Farzi, Hossein ^a   Kajbafzadeh, Abdol Mohammad ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adolescent; disease progression; recurrence; ultrasonography; varicocele

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTROPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROPERITONEUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SHUNT TYPE VARICOCELE; SPERMATIC VEIN; STOP TYPE VARICOCELE; TESTIS DISEASE; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY; VEIN LIGATION;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ATROPHY; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; IRAN; LIGATION; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE; VEINS;

EID: 80055010206     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.08.024     Document Type: Article

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