Birth of healthy children after intracytoplasmic sperm injection in two couples with male Kartagener's syndrome

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 643-646

  Von Zumbusch, Annette ^a,b   Fiedler, Klaus ^c   Mayerhofer, Artur ^a   Jeßberger, Berthold ^a   Ring, Johannes ^a   Vogt, Hermann Josef ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Stud Grp Noxenkatalog Databank (H   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Centriole; Centrosome; ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection); Immotile cilia syndrome; Kartagener's syndrome; Microtubule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTROSOME; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARTAGENER SYNDROME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; KARTAGENER SYNDROME; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0031784919     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00246-5     Document Type: Article

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