Testicular sperm extraction with intracytoplasmic sperm injection for nonobstructive azoospermia

Urology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 435-440

  Schlegel, Peter N ^a   Palermo, Gianpiero D ^b   Goldstein, Marc ^b   Menendez, Silvia ^b   Zaninovic, Nikica ^b   Veeck, Lucinda L ^b   Rosenwaks, Zev ^b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY;

ADULT; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0030937877     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(97)00032-0     Document Type: Article

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