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CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology
Published in: CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology 5/2008

01-09-2008 | Letter to the Editor

A Proposed Anatomical Typing of the Right Internal Spermatic Vein: Importance for Percutaneous Sclerotherapy of Varicocele

Author: Vittorio Iaccarino

Published in: CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology | Issue 5/2008

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When, in 1975, I successfully performed my first left spermatic vein sclerotherapy [1], I was a young doctor and I didn’t know that scrotal varicocele could produce infertility. Moreover, I had never imagined that this simple and personal technique could, in such a short time, become a very interesting but controversial subject for so many medical specialists, such as andrologists, urologists, andro-urologists, gynaecologists, surgeons, endocrinologists, and interventional radiologists, therefore causing many endless discussions. …
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Metadata
Title
A Proposed Anatomical Typing of the Right Internal Spermatic Vein: Importance for Percutaneous Sclerotherapy of Varicocele
Author
Vittorio Iaccarino
Publication date
01-09-2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology / Issue 5/2008
Print ISSN: 0174-1551
Electronic ISSN: 1432-086X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-007-9248-6

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