Twenty-four-hour monitoring of scrotal temperature in obese men and men with a varicocele as a mirror of spermatogenic function

Human Reproduction

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1006-1013

  Garolla, Andrea ^a   Torino, Mario ^a   Miola, Paride ^a   Caretta, Nicola ^a   Pizzol, Damiano ^a   Menegazzo, Massimo ^a   Bertoldo, Alessandro ^a   Foresta, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

male infertility; obesity; spermatogenesis; testicular heating; varicocele

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FOLLITROPIN; IODINE 125; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HEATING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL DEVICE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OBESITY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SCROTAL TEMPERATURE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TESTIS; TESTIS FUNCTION; ULTRASOUND; VARICOCELE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHROMOSOME; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; INFERTILITY, MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SCROTUM; SPERMATOZOON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OBESITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; RISK FACTORS; SCROTUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84929714432     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dev057     Document Type: Article

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