Outcomes of Microscopic Subinguinal Varicocelectomy With and Without the Assistance of Doppler Ultrasound: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Urology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 922-928

  Guo, Liqiang ^a   Sun, Wendong ^a   Shao, Guangfeng ^a   Song, Hongbin ^a,b   Ge, Nan ^a,b   Zhao, Shengtian ^a,b   Liu, Yuqiang ^a,b   Zhang, Xiulin ^a   Xiao, Zhiying ^b   Yuan, Mingzhen ^a  

^a THE SECOND HOSPITAL OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, MALE; INGUINAL CANAL; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INGUINAL CANAL; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPERATIVE TIME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 85027947260     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2015.08.002     Document Type: Article

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