Pregnancy resulting from frozen-thawed embryos achieved by intracytoplasmic injection of cryopreserved sperm cells extracted from an orchidectomized, seminoma-bearing testis, causing obstructive azoospermia

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2836-2838

  Yavetz, H ^a,b   Hauser, R ^a   Botchan, A ^a   Azem, F ^a   Yovel, I ^a   Lessing, J B ^a   Amit, A ^a   Yogev, L ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Institute for the Study of Fertility   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cryopreserved embryos; Cryopreserved testicular spermatozoa; ICSI; Obstructive azoospermia; Seminoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BIRTH; CASE REPORT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; SEMINOMA; SPERMATOZOON;

EID: 0031450054     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.12.2836     Document Type: Article

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