Imaging and interventional therapy for varicoceles

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Kwak, No ^a   Siegel, David ^a,b  

^a Northwell Health   (United States)

^b DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrocele formation; Interventional therapy; Leydig cell dysfunction; Male infertility; Percutaneous embolization; Recurrence; Sclerotherapy; Scrotal color Doppler ultrasonography; Spontaneous pregnancy; Testicular pain; Varicocele; Venography

Indexed keywords

TISSUE ADHESIVE;

ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; MALE INFERTILITY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATIENT SELECTION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENCE RISK; SCLEROTHERAPY; SCROTAL PAIN; STANDING; TESTIS ATROPHY; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN DILATATION; LIGATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SCROTUM; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIGATION; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; SCLEROTHERAPY; SCROTUM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VARICOCELE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84893703823     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-014-0399-0     Document Type: Article

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