Varicocele

Male Infertility: Contemporary Clinical Approaches, Andrology, ART and Antioxidants: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 391-407

  Zylbersztejn, Daniel Suslik ^a   Esteves, Sandro C ^b  

^a DSZ Medicina Reprodutiva   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Hypogonadism; Infertility; Microsurgery; Oxidative stress; Proteomics; Sperm DNA fragmentation; Testosterone; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

EID: 85112744607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32300-4_31     Document Type: Chapter

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