Pregnancies after intracytoplasmic sperm injection with cryopreserved testicular spermatozoa

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1309-1313

  Gil Salom, M ^a,b   Romero, J ^a   Minguez Y ^a   Rubio, C ^a   De Los Santos, M J ^a   Remohi J ^a   Pellicer, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INFERTILIDAD   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Male infertility; Pregnancy; Sperm cryopreservation; Testicular biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROINJECTION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS BIOPSY;

EID: 0030055122     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019377     Document Type: Article

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