Are there any predictive factors for successful testicular sperm recovery in azoospermic patients?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 80-86

  Tournaye, H ^a   Verheyen, G ^a   Nagy, P ^a   Ubaldi, F ^a   Goossens, A ^a   Silber, S ^b   Van Steirteghem, A C ^a   Devroey, P ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Diagnostic study; ROC curves; Spermatozoa; Testicular biopsy

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS SIZE;

EID: 0031054889     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.1.80     Document Type: Article

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