Sperm acrosome defects in a patient with Aarskog-Scott syndrome

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 340-342

  Meschede, Dieter ^a   Rolf, Claus ^a   Neugebauer, Dorothea Ch ^a,b   Horst, Jürgen ^a   Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aarskog Scott syndrome; acrosome defect; genital system; male infertility; spermacrosome

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ADULT; ANDROLOGY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FACIOGENITAL DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTUM DISORDER; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ACROSOME; ADULT; FACE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SCROTUM; SPERMATOZOA; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030474634     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19961218)66:3<340::AID-AJMG18>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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