ReviewCurrent urology reports2017
The Dilemma of Adolescent Varicoceles: Do They Really Have to Be Repaired?
Review in Current urology reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Observation or treatment of paediatric varicoceles: revisiting the evidence.Nature reviews. Urology · 2026Review
- Intra- and Interobserver Variability in Ultrasound Measurement of Testicular Volumes in Pubertal Boys.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Comprehensive Analysis of Global Research on Human Varicocele: A Scientometric Approach.The world journal of men's health · 2022Article
- Case - Spontaneous thrombosis of varix in childhood.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2021Article
- Treating varicocele in 2018: current knowledge and treatment options.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2018Review
- Effects of percutaneous varicocele repair on testicular volume: results from a 12-month follow-up.Asian journal of andrologyArticle
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
The primary indication for varicocele repair in adults, that of failed paternity, must be substituted in the adolescent population with surrogate parameters of testicular size differential and semen analysis. Making recommendations based on these two parameters is incredibly difficult because studies often have contradictory findings, different patient populations, and lack of long-term follow up of the key endpoint, paternity. Therefore, it is not a surprise that recommendations for adolescent varicocele repair are general (with some exceptions) and necessarily so because of limitations in quality of evidence. Apart from pain, all indications for varicocele repair in adolescence remain controversial. This highlights the most important task for future studies: to prevent pediatric urologists from allowing a potentially damaging process to go untreated, while at the same time avoiding unnecessary intervention on a highly prevalent condition.
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