Varicocele among infertile men in Qatar

Andrologia

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  ElBardisi, H ^a   Arafa, M ^a,b   Rengan, A K ^c   Durairajanayagam, D ^d   AlSaid, S S ^a   Khalafalla, K ^a   AlRumaihi, K ^a   Majzoub, A ^c   Agarwal, A ^c  

^a HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

frequency; grade; male infertility; Qatar; varicocele

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; QATAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THERMOGRAPHY; VARICOCELE; COLOR DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; INFERTILITY, MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QATAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84978870892     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/and.12637     Document Type: Article

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