Intrauterine insemination after ovarian stimulation with clomiphene citrate: Predictive potential of inseminating motile count and sperm morphology

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1458-1463

  Ombelet, W ^a   Vandeput, H ^a   Van de Putte, G ^a   Cox, A ^a   Janssen, M ^a   Jacobs, P ^a   Bosmans, E ^a   Steeno, O ^b   Kruger, T ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Clomiphene citrate; HCG; Intrauterine insemination; Ovarian stimulation; Sperm morphology

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CELL STRUCTURE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OVARY DISEASE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN PREGNANCY;

EID: 0030763241     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.7.1458     Document Type: Article

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