Varicocele repair for nonobstructive azoospermia

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 507-512

  Mehta, Akanksha ^a   Goldstein, Marc ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnostic testicular biopsy; nonobstructive azoospermia; spermatogenesis; varicocele; varicocelectomy

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; AZOOSPERMIA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EJACULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; META ANALYSIS; MICRODISSECTION; MICROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

AZOOSPERMIA; BIOPSY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84867577238     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: 14736586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOU.0b013e328358e27b     Document Type: Review

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