Effect of Body Mass Index on severity and prevalence of varicocele

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 869-875

  Hassanzadeh, Kamaleddin ^a   Yavari kia, Parisa ^b   Soleymanpour, Hassan ^a   Ebrahimpour tolouei, Nasser ^b   Alikhah, Hossein ^b  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anthropometricparameters; Hypehernia; Infehlity; Pampiniform plexus; Spermatic vein

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TESTIS; VARICOCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82255174032     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2011.869.875     Document Type: Article

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