Clinical and biological aspects of male immune infertility: A case- controlled study of 86 cases

Andrologia

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 191-196

  Mahmoud, A M ^a   Tuyttens, C 'L ^b   Comhaire, F H ^b  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; human; Immunologic infertility; male infertility; MAR test

Indexed keywords

SPERM ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOMBS TEST; EPIDIDYMIS DISEASE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBFERTILITY; TESTIS SIZE;

EID: 0029838907     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.1996.tb02782.x     Document Type: Article

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