Significant improvement of sperm DNA quality after microsurgical repair of varicocele

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 274-277

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

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

SCSA; Sperm DNA fragmentation; Varicocele; Varicocelectomy

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGERY; MORPHOLOGY; PARTHENOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866371250     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2012.692431     Document Type: Article

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