Quality of frozen-thawed testicular sperm and its preclinical use for intracytoplasmic sperm injection into in vitro-matured germinal-vesicle stage oocytes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 74-80

  Verheyen, Greta ^a   Nagy, Zsolt ^a   Joris, Hubert ^a   De Croo, Ilse ^a   Tournaye, Herman ^a   Van Steirteghem, André ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Freezing; in vitro matured oocytes; intracytoplasmic sperm injection; testicular sperm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZING; GERMINAL VESICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; THAWING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031030049     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)81859-6     Document Type: Article

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