Article: Data from Royal Manchester Children's Hospital advance knowledge in varicocele.

"Through a school screening program for varicocele we studied the prognostic value of hemodynamic vs clinical grading for predicting the risk of progression, time to worsening and the final outcome in adolescents with varicocele. A school screening program was set up for boys between ages 10 and 16 years to assess pubertal development, varicocele, testicular vein reflux and testicular volume," scientists in Manchester, the United Kingdom report (see also Varicocele).

"Those who eventually had ipsilateral testicular hypotrophy underwent surgery. All patients underwent semen analysis after age 18 years. Varicocele grade was correlated with pubertal development, ...

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