The adolescent varicocele - A Shakespearean tragedy or much ado about nothing?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2024-2025

  Kolon, Thomas F ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; ORCHIDOMETER; PATERNITY TEST; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCLEROTHERAPY; SCREENING TEST; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SYMPTOM; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UNCERTAINTY; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATERNITY; PUBERTY; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84877612512     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2013.03.032     Document Type: Editorial

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