Diagnostic and management approaches to pediatric and adolescent varicocele: A survey of pediatric urologists

Urology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 450-456

  Pastuszak, Alexander W ^a   Kumar, Varun ^a   Shah, Anup ^a   Roth, David R ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADOLESCENT VARICOCELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC PAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCROTAL PAIN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SUBINGUINAL MICROSURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS SIZE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UROLOGIST; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UROLOGY; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84905122902     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2014.04.022     Document Type: Article

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