Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 6 , Pages 2226-2230 , December 2008

Human testicular arterial supply: gross anatomy, corrosion cast, and radiologic study

  • Taymour Mostafa, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Andrology & Sexology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Taymour Mostafa, M.D., Andrology & Sexology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo 11562, Egypt.
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  • Ibrahim Labib, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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  • Yasser El-Khayat, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Andrology & Sexology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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  • Abd El-Rahman El-Shahat, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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  • Amr Gadallah, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Andrology & Sexology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Received 3 August 2007 ,Revised 11 October 2007 ,Accepted 16 October 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.10.013

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 6 , Pages 2226-2230 , December 2008

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