Births after intracytoplasmic injection of sperm obtained by testicular extraction from men with nonmosaic Klinefelter's syndrome

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 588-590

  Palermo, Gianpiero D ^a,b   Schlegel, Peter N ^a   Scott Sills, E ^a   Veeck, Lucinda L ^a   Zaninovic, Nikica ^a   Menendez, Silvia ^a   Rosenwaks, Zev ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; BIOPSY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0032568005     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199802263380905     Document Type: Article

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