Evaluation of the potential role of shear wave elastography as a promising predictor of sperm retrieval in non-obstructive azoospermic patients: A prospective study.

Alaaeldien Mohamed Abdelmoniem AbdelaalHatem Mohamed El-AziziSameh Fayek GamalEl DinOmar Abdulsalam Mohammad AzzaziMohamed Shokr Mohamed

Published in: Andrology (2021)

These prime data suggest that SWE as a non-invasive, easily applicable, and repeatable imaging method has a promising potential to be one of the reliable sonographic modalities that can be used as one of the predictors for sperm retrieval in NOA patients.

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