Male infertility caused by congenital bilateral absence of vas deferens: New clinical aspect of cystic fibrosis?;Sterilite masculine par agenesie bilaterale des canaux deferents: Une nouvelle forme clinique de mucoviscidose?

Revue de Medecine Interne

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 114-118

  Durieu, I ^a   Bey Omar, F ^b   Rollet, J ^c   Boggio, D ^a   Bellon, G ^a   Morel, Y ^b   Vital Durand, D ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^b HÔPITAL DEBROUSSE   (France)

^c Institut Rhonalpin Pour l'Etude D   (France)

Author keywords

CFTR gene mutation; congenital bilateral absence of vas deferens; cystic fibrosis genotype; cystic fibrosis phenotype

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; CFTR PROTEIN, HUMAN; CHLORINE;

ADULT; AGENESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; PHENOTYPE; SPIROMETRY; VAS DEFERENS; CHEMISTRY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MUTATION; SINUSITIS; SWEAT;

ADULT; CHLORINE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SINUSITIS; SWEAT; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0031081431     PISSN: 02488663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0248-8663(97)84676-0     Document Type: Article

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