Fertility with testicular sperm extraction and intracytoplasmic sperm injection in non-obstructive azoospermic men

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 756-760

  Kahraman, Semra ^a   Özgür, Suat ^a   Alataş, Cengiz ^a   Aksoy, Senai ^a   Taşdemir, Murat ^a   Nuhoǧlu, Alp ^a   Taşdemir, Işlk ^a   Balaban, Başak ^a   Biberoǧlu, Kutay ^a   Schoysman, Robert ^b   Nijs, Martine ^b   Vanderzwalmen, Pierre ^b  

^a Sevgi Hospital   (Turkey)

^b SIMAF Van Helmont Hospital   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fertility; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Nonobstructive azoospermia; Testicular sperm extraction

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROINJECTION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS SIZE; TWIN PREGNANCY;

EID: 0011370250     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019249     Document Type: Article

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