Free sex steroid and sex hormone-binding globulin levels in oligozoospermic men with varicoceles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 299-304

  Hudson, R W ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

free T; improvement with surgery; response to GnRH; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0030035455     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)58457-x     Document Type: Article

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