Seminal volume and total sperm number trends in men attending subfertility clinics in the Greater Athens area during the period 1977-1993

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1936-1941

  Adamopoulos, Dimitrios A ^a   Pappa, Athina ^a   Nicopoulou, Stamatina ^a   Andreou, Evangelia ^a   Karamertzanis, Maria ^a   Michopoulos, John ^a   Deligianni, Vasso ^a   Simou, Margaret ^a  

^a HELENA VENIZELOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decline; Seminal volume; Sperm number

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SUBFERTILITY;

EID: 0029847648     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019520     Document Type: Article

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