Reassessing the Role of Subclinical Varicocele in Infertile Men with Impaired Semen Quality: A Prospective Study

Urology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 826-830

  Cantoro, Ubaldo ^a   Polito, Massimo ^a   Muzzonigro, Giovanni ^a  

^a OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPERMATIC CORD; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTOSTERONE; VARICOCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929940195     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2015.01.015     Document Type: Article

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