The treatment of obstructive azoospermia male infertility - Past, present, and future

Urology

Volumn 51, Issue 5 SUPPL. A, 1998, Pages 150-155

  Takihara, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a Department of Urology   (Japan)

^b Onoda City General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGERY; OBSTRUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOCELE;

EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; VAS DEFERENS; VASOVASOSTOMY;

EID: 0031834686     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(98)00089-2     Document Type: Article

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