Identifying environmental risk to male reproductive function by occupational sperm studies: Logistics and design options

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 511-519

  Bonde, Jens Peter ^a   Giwercman, Aleksander ^b   Ernst, Erik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

male fertility; occupation; sperm study; toxicity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0029763606     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.8.511     Document Type: Article

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