Intraindividual variability and redundancy of semen parameters

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-103

  Tielemans, Erik ^a,b   Heederik, Dick ^a   Burdorf, Alex ^b   Loomis, Dana ^c   Habbema, J Dik F ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c University of North Carolina ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiologic methods; male infertility; semen parameters; variability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031012436     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199701000-00016     Document Type: Article

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