Worldwide variations in sperm counts

Urology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 909-911

  Fisch, Harry ^a   Ikeguchi, Edward F ^a   Goluboff, Erik T ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; THAILAND; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; MALE; SPERM COUNT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0030478288     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(96)00301-9     Document Type: Article

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