Male infertility

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9054, 1997, Pages 787-790

  De Kretser, D M ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; DISEASE DURATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0030945067     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)08341-9     Document Type: Review

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