Prevalence of Y chromosome microdeletions in oligospermic and azoospermic candidates for intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 506-510

  Oliva, Rafael ^a,b   Margarit, Ester ^a,b   Ballescá, José Luis ^a,b   Carrió, Ana ^a,b   Sánchez, Aurora ^a,b   Milà, Montse ^a,b   Jiménez, Loli ^a,b   Alvarez Vijande, José Ricardo ^a,b   Ballesta, Francisca ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Human sperm; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Microdeletions; Oligospermia; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; OLIGOSPERMIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPAIN; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031720386     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00195-2     Document Type: Article

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