Left varicocele revealing a nutcracker phenomenon.

Pan Afr Med J

Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences, Cheikh Khalifa International University Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco.

Published: February 2022

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