Effect of varicocelectomy on testicular volume in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis

Urology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1340-1345

  Li, Fuping ^a,b   Chiba, Koji ^a   Yamaguchi, Kohei ^a   Okada, Keisuke ^a   Matsushita, Kei ^a   Ando, Makoto ^a   Yue, Huanxun ^b   Fujisawa, Masato ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS SIZE; VARIANCE; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84861720285     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2012.02.022     Document Type: Article

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