Abstract
The importance of varicocele ligation in the treatment of the male partner of an infertile marriage is at present the subject of debate. There is no agreement on the mechanism whereby a varicocele might impair fertility and much current research is being given to this aspect of infertility.
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Pryor, J.P. (1981). The Doppler Investigation of Varicocele. In: Schulman, C.C. (eds) Advances in Diagnostic Urology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95394-1_5
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