Delivery following intracytoplasmic injection of mature sperm cells recovered by testicular fine needle aspiration in a case of hypergonadotropic azoospermia due to maturation arrest

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 769-771

  Lewin, Aby ^a   Weiss, David B ^a   Friedler, Shevach ^a   Ben Shachar, Inbar ^a   Porat Katz, Anat ^a   Meirow, Dror ^a   Schenker, Joseph G ^a   Safran, Anat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fine needle aspiration; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Maturation arrest; Sperm; Testis

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; CRYPTORCHISM; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MICROINJECTION; OOCYTE; ORCHIDOPEXY; OVULATION INDUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS BIOPSY;

EID: 0029930219     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019252     Document Type: Article

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