Antegrade Venography Identifies Parallel Venous Duplications in the Majority of Adolescents with Varicocele

Journal of Urology

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 286-290

  Nagappan, Poongkodi ^a   Keene, David ^a   Ferrara, Francesco ^a   Shabani, Abdusamea ^a   Cervellione, Raimondo M ^a  

^a ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anatomy; phlebography; recurrence; varicocele

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTEGRADE VENOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; INCISION; INTERNAL SPERMATIC VENOUS MALFORMATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; PARALLEL VENOUS DUPLICATION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROTHERAPY; SPERMATIC VEIN; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY; VEIN LIGATION; VEIN MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN;

ADOLESCENT; HUMANS; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS; VARICOCELE; VEINS;

EID: 84926128509     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2014.07.081     Document Type: Article

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