Ultrasonic predictors of improved seminal parameters after bilateral laparoscopic varicocelectomy

International Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1121-1125

  Mehraban, Darab ^a   Taghdiri, Mahdi ^a   Nategh, Shahriar ^a   Ahmadzadeh, Arash ^a   Ranjbarnovin, Neda ^b   Taheri, Amir Pejman Hashemi ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Color Doppler ultrasonography; Infertility; Laparoscopy; Semen parameters; Ultrasonography; Varicocele; Varicocelectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILATERAL LAPAROSCOPIC VARICOCELECTOMY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY; VEIN DIAMETER; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATIC CORD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VARICOCELE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867896938     PISSN: 03011623     EISSN: 15732584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-012-0143-y     Document Type: Article

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