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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2026

Is Varicocele Truly Unilateral? Contralateral Involvement and Bilateral Testicular Effects in Male Infertility: A Narrative Review.

Aris Kaltsas, Andreas Koumenis, Evangelos N Symeonidis, Fotios Dimitriadis, Nikolaos Sofikitis

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Aris KaltsasThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4651-312X
Andreas KoumenisThird Department of Urology, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0009-0003-5811-8474
Evangelos N SymeonidisDepartment of Urology II, European Interbalkan Medical Center, 55535 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6360-0762
Fotios DimitriadisDepartment of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-1198-9144
Nikolaos SofikitisLaboratory of Spermatology, Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

bilateral varicocelecolor Doppler ultrasonographyinternal spermatic veinlateralitymale infertilitynutcracker phenomenonsubclinical varicocelevaricocelevaricocelectomyvenous reflux

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PMID42645911
PMCPMC13514635

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