Surgical subinguinal approach to varicocele combined with antegrade intraoperative sclerosis of venous vessels

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 252-257

  Colpi, Giovanni Maria ^a   Carmignani, Luca ^b   Bozzini, Giorgio ^b   Picozzi, Stefano ^b  

^a UO di Andrologia   (Italy)

^b IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

Author keywords

surgical technique; urology; varicocele

Indexed keywords

POLIDOCANOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; INCISION; INGUINAL REGION; INTRAOPERATIVE ANTEGRADE SCLEROTHERAPY; KELOID; LYMPHANGITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PENILE LYMPHANGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE EDEMA; SCLEROTHERAPY; SCROTAL PAIN; SPERMATIC CORD; SPERMATOCELE; SURGICAL APPROACH; VARICOCELE; VEIN DILATATION; VENOUS REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; INGUINAL CANAL; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROSIS; SCROTUM; SPERMATIC CORD; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84868226694     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: 15533514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350611429026     Document Type: Article

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