Does l-carnitine therapy add any extra benefit to standard inguinal varicocelectomy in terms of deoxyribonucleic acid damage or sperm quality factor indices: A randomized study

Urology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 821-825

  Pourmand, Gholamreza ^a   Movahedin, Mansooreh ^b   Dehghani, Sanaz ^a   Mehrsai, Abdolrassul ^a   Ahmadi, Ayat ^c   Pourhosein, Maryam ^a   Hoseini, Marzieh ^b   Ziloochi, Marzieh ^b   Heidari, Fariba ^a   Beladi, Laleh ^a   Noori, Mohammad ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; PROTAMINE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EVALUATION STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY; INGUINAL CANAL; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; CARNITINE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; INGUINAL CANAL; MALE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84921984100     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2014.07.006     Document Type: Article

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