The influence of antisperm antibodies, intratesticular haemodynamics and the surgical approach to varicocelectomy on seminal variables

Arab Journal of Urology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 309-317

  Al Adl, Ahmed M ^a   El Karamany, Tarek ^a   Issa, Hesham ^a   Zaazaa, Mohamed ^a  

^a BENHA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Antisperm antibodies; Intratesticular haemodynamics; Spermatogenesis; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SPERM ANTIBODY; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; END DIASTOLIC VELOCITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRATESTICULAR HEMODYNAMICS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPEN STUDY; PEAK SYSTOLIC VELOCITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSATILITY INDEX; RESISTIVE INDEX; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; TESTIS FUNCTION; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

EID: 84919485065     PISSN: 2090598X     EISSN: 20905998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aju.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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