Are spermatid injections of any clinical value? Testicular sperm extraction and intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2045-2046

  Devroey, P ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATID; TESTIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROINJECTION; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON;

CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0031696909     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.8.2045     Document Type: Short Survey

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