Fertilization and pregnancy using intentionally cryopreserved testicular tissue as the sperm source for intracytoplasmic sperm injection in 10 men with nonobstructive azoospermia

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 734-739

  Oates, Robert D ^a,c   Mulhall, John ^a   Burgess, Colleen ^b   Cunningham, Donna ^b   Carson, Ronald ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Deaconess Waltham Hospital   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Cryopreservation; ICSI; Spermatozoa; TESE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BIRTH RATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; PREGNANCY RATE; TESTIS;

EID: 0031008051     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.4.734     Document Type: Article

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