Urology
Volume 65, Issue 4 , Pages 768-772 , April 2005

Effect of age and grade on surgery for patients with varicocele

  • Tomomoto Ishikawa

      Affiliations

    • Center for Biomedical Research, The Population Council, New York, New York
    • Division of Urology, Department of Organs Therapeutics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Tomomoto Ishikawa, M.D., Center for Biomedical Research, The Population Council, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021.
    • ,
  • Masato Fujisawa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan

Received 12 July 2004 ,Accepted 3 November 2004.

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PII: S0090-4295(04)01345-7

doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2004.11.009

Urology
Volume 65, Issue 4 , Pages 768-772 , April 2005

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