Medical treatment for idiopathic male infertility: Is it curative or palliative?

Bailliere's Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 673-689

  Baker, H W G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Male infertility therapy; Prognostic factors; Regression towards the mean

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTIESTROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN;

AUTOIMMUNITY; AZOOSPERMIA; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBFERTILITY; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0031433051     PISSN: 09503552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-3552(97)80006-5     Document Type: Article

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