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ArticleCanadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada2023

2023 Canadian Urological Association guideline: Evaluation and management of azoospermia.

Ryan Flannigan, Borna Tadayon Najafabadi, Philippe D Violette, Keith Jarvi, Premal Patel, Phil Vu Bach, Trustin Domes, Armand Zini, Ethan Grober, Victor Mak and 9 more

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Article in Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Case - Obstructive azoospermia secondary to bilateral hydroceles.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2025
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  10. Case series - Azoospermia to oligozoospermia following bilateral orchidopexy in adults with undescended testicles A Canadian first.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Ryan FlanniganDepartment of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Borna Tadayon NajafabadiDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Philippe D VioletteDepartments of Surgery and Health Research Methods Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Keith JarviDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Premal PatelDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Phil Vu BachDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Trustin DomesDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Armand ZiniDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Ethan GroberDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Victor MakDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, Mackenzie Health, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada.
Marc Anthony FischerDepartments of Surgery and Health Research Methods Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Peter ChanDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Kirk LoDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Victor ChowDepartment of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Chris WuDepartment of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
John GrantmyreDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Genevieve PatryDivision of Urology, Department of Surgery, Hôtel-Dieu De Lévis, Lévis, QC, Canada.
Peter N Schlegel
Matthew Roberts

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID37581550
PMCPMC10426420

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