Varicoceles and treatment of infertility - Have we made any progress?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-14

  Sigman, Mark ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BODY MASS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL ONLY SYNDROME; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

EID: 83555164648     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2011.10.059     Document Type: Editorial

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