Diagnosis of clinical and subclinical varicocele: How has it evolved?

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 182-185

  Belay, Ruth E ^a   Huang, Gene Omar ^a   Shen, Jim Ken Chie ^a   Ko, Edmund Yuey Kun ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

scrotum; testis; varicocele

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCROTUM; SUBCLINICAL VARICOCELE; TESTIS DISEASE; THERMOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VARICOCELE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84957873465     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1008-682X.169991     Document Type: Review

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