Persistent or recurrent varicocoele after failed varicocoelectomy: Outcome in patients treated using percutaneous transcatheter embolization

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 359-365

  Kim, J ^a   Shin, J H ^b   Yoon, H K ^b   Ko, G Y ^b   Gwon, D I ^b   Kim, E Y ^b   Sung, K B ^b  

^a Hanyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INGUINAL LIGATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROPERITONEAL LIGATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCROTAL PAIN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84858006420     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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