High fertilization and pregnancy rate after intracytoplasmic sperm injection with spermatozoa obtained from testicle biopsy

Human Reproduction

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 148-152

  Silber, S J ^a,b   Van Steirteghem, A C ^a   Liu, J ^a   Nagy, Z ^a   Tournaye, H ^a   Devroey, P ^a  

^a ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Microsurgical sperm aspiration; Pregnancy; Testicle biopsy

Indexed keywords

AGENESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGERY; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREGNANCY RATE; TESTIS BIOPSY; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0028931833     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/10.1.148     Document Type: Article

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