Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4162259 | Journal of Pediatric Urology | 2015 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
In our retrospective cohort of prepubertal boys with left testis varicocele and their matched cohort, we did not detect a difference in the rate of good outcomes, defined as the absence of hypotrophy and lack of need for surgical intervention. While we may have suspected, as have others, that prepubertal presentation would have conveyed a more pressing need to intervene, it is likely that these boys represent the very same patients that we see more commonly later in their adolescence, and should thus be managed in a similarly conservative fashion.
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Authors
M.P. Kurtz, I. Rosoklija, G. Kringle, D. Zurakowski, R.N. Yu, D.A. Diamond,