[Varicocele: treatment via percutaneous approach].
The varicocele is benign pathology which sometimes involves disorders of testicular growth. Those can cause a hypofertility. We saw in a retrospective way the 243 patients having been treated by percutaneous embolisation from May 1985 to August 1993. At 150 patients being 1 year at least of postoperative retreat, 70% of cases present a cure, 15% of patients repeated and were taken again surgically. At 8% of patients, the embolisation was not technically possible for reasons of vascular anomalies or spasm of the vein during the procedure. The morbidity of this technique is low, this involves therefore a right choice of the treatment of the varicocele which does not prevent any surgical treatment in the event of repetition or in the event of technical failure.
Mostin
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Service d'Urologie, Cliniques Universitaires St.-Luc Bruxelles.
Mathurin
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Goffette
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Hammer
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Opsomer
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Lorge
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Abi Aad
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Van Cangh
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Wese
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013737:Testis / Q000254:growth & development; D014646:Varicocele / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy
Varicocèle: traitement par voie percutanée.