Extraction of testicular sperm from previously cryopreserved tissue in couples with or without transport of oocytes and testicular tissue

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 785-791

  Scholtes, Michael C W ^a,b,c   Van Hoogstraten, Dagmar G ^a,b,c   Schmoutziguer, Alex ^a,b,c   Zeilmaker, Gerard H ^a,b,c  

^a Center for Reproductive Medicine   (Germany)

^b Rijnstate Hospital   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromosomes; Follow up; Frozen thawed; FSH; Sperm motility; TESE; Transport

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELL SEPARATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; OVUM TRANSPORT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0032701706     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00359-3     Document Type: Article

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