Outcome of in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic injection of epididymal and testicular sperm extracted from patients with obstructive and nonobstructive azoospermia

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1080-1084

  Madgar, Igael ^b   Hourvitz, Ariel ^b   Levron, Jacob ^b   Seidman, Daniel S ^b   Shulman, Adrian ^b   Raviv, Gil G ^b   Levran, David ^b   Bider, David ^b   Mashiach, Shlomo ^b   Dor, Jehoshua ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Azoospermia; ICSI; Nonobstructive; Obstructive

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TESTIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CYTOPLASM; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERMATOZOA; SUCTION; TESTIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032101560     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00076-4     Document Type: Article

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