Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer Brian J. Kaplan Mrs. Murphy is a healthy 55-year-old woman who has a new cluster of microcalcifications on her annual screening mammogram. She is advised to have a…
Wound Healing and Repair
Wound Healing and Repair Christopher J. Brandys Tim M. Brandys A 17-year-old man is brought to the emergency room directly from the local high school track and field meet. While…
Preoperative Anesthetic Assessment of the Surgical Patient
Preoperative Anesthetic Assessment of the Surgical Patient Thomas McNiff Cornelius Dyke Mrs. Barr is a 65-year-old woman whom the anesthesiologist is called to see before surgery. She presented to the…
Origin and Pathophysiology
Fig. 2.1 Illustration depicting the venous testicular vasculature (a), and the drainage of right and left testes (b). The right testicular vein empties into the inferior vena cava while the…
Varicocele Classification
Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Accuracy (%) Physical exam 70 70 67 Color Doppler ultrasound 93 85 ND Venography 100 60–70 ND Thermography 84–98 81–100 ND ND not defined Physical…
Treatment Modalities
Study Patients Antioxidant Outcomes Controlled trials Cavalleni et al. (2004) [213] n = 62 men with varicocele and 39 men with oligozoospermia treated compared with 71 men with varicocele and 47 men…
Varicocele in Adolescents
© The Author(s) 2016Alaa Hamada, Sandro C. Esteves and Ashok AgarwalVaricocele and Male InfertilitySpringerBriefs in Reproductive Biology10.1007/978-3-319-24936-0_7 7. Varicocele in Adolescents Alaa Hamada1 , Sandro C. Esteves2 and Ashok Agarwal3 (1) TUFTS Medical School/St. Elizabeths Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA…
Association Between Varicocele and Infertility
# Author, year and reference OS marker Evidence Study group (N) Controls (N) Results A. Seminal OS markers 1. Hendin et al. 1999 [104] Seminal ROS (by CL) Direct Infertile…
Varicocele and Azoospermia
© The Author(s) 2016Alaa Hamada, Sandro C. Esteves and Ashok AgarwalVaricocele and Male InfertilitySpringerBriefs in Reproductive Biology10.1007/978-3-319-24936-0_9 9. Varicocele and Azoospermia Alaa Hamada1 , Sandro C. Esteves2 and Ashok Agarwal3 (1) TUFTS Medical School/St. Elizabeths Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA…
Guidelines and Best Practice Statements for the Evaluation and Management of Infertile Adult and Adolescent Males with Varicocele
Levels of evidence 1a Evidence obtained from meta-analysis of randomized trials 1b Evidence obtained from at least one randomized trial 2a Evidence obtained from one well-designed controlled study without randomization…
