Estimating fertility potential via semen analysis data

Human Reproduction

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 65-70

  Bartoov, Benjamin ^a   Eltes, Fina ^a   Pansky, Mordechai ^a,b   Lederman, Hani ^a   Caspi, Eliahu ^b   Soffer, Yigal ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fertility potential; Infertility diagnosis; Male infertility; Semen analysis; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMEN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027408356     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a137876     Document Type: Article

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