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Adult Varicocele Diagnosis and Treatment

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Varicocele and Male Infertility

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Varicocele is a common presentation in men seeking fertility. While its impact on semen quality has long been recognized, not all men with varicocele require treatment. Clinical guidelines on varicocele management should therefore be reviewed before counselling and treatment decisions are made. This chapter reviews the clinical presentation and the evaluation of adult varicoceles and explores the present clinical guidelines for its diagnosis and treatment. The various treatment options are also portrayed along with their outcomes and complication rates.

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  1. Department of Urology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar, Doha, Qatar

    Ahmad Majzoub

  2. S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

    Chak-Lam Cho

  3. American Center for Reproductive Medicine, Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Ashok Agarwal

  4. ANDROFERT, Andrology & Human Reproduction Clinic, Campinas, SP, Brazil

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Majzoub, A., Cho, CL., Agarwal, A., Esteves, S.C. (2019). Adult Varicocele Diagnosis and Treatment. In: Esteves, S., Cho, CL., Majzoub, A., Agarwal, A. (eds) Varicocele and Male Infertility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79102-9_55

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