Varicocele ligation with mobile phone microscope:Report of 5 cases and literature review
LIU Yan-zhong
LI Chao
GAO Yu
LI Yu-zhu
ZHU Run
XIANG Xue-yuan
HU Ying-na
MA Xin
WANG Chun-yang
Abstract：Objective:To investigate the feasibility of varicocele ligation with mobile phone microscope.Methods:The high-performance mobile phone and mobile phone stand were combined to act as a mobile phone microscope.And the varicocele ligation was performed under the mobile phone microscope.Results:All five patients successfully underwent varicocelectomy under the guidance of a mobile phone microscope.The average operation time was(112.8±52.2)with ranged from 74.0 to 195.0 minutes.Three pa-tients completed the follow-up after the operation with the proportion of improved sperm quality reaching 100.0％(3/3).Conclusion:High-performance mobile phone microscope can be used for varicocele ligation.
Keywords：smartphonemicroscopevaricocelevaricocelectomy
Publication Date：2025-08-20
Online Publishing Date：2025-09-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 709-712 )