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Varicocele is found in 5 % of men with NOA, but its absolute impact on the azoospermic status is still unknown. The advent of assisted reproductive technologies (ART), particularly intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), has reintroduced the awareness about varicocele with NOA, as improvement in testicular function to obtain viable sperm for ART may be critical for infertile men with NOA.
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Hamada, A., Esteves, S., Agarwal, A. (2016). Varicocele and Azoospermia. In: Varicocele and Male Infertility. SpringerBriefs in Reproductive Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24936-0_9
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