Unilateral or bilateral testicular biopsy in the era of intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Journal of Urology

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2010-2013

  Plas, Eugen ^a   Riedl, Claus R ^a   Engelhardt, Paul F ^a   Mühlbauer, Hans ^a   Pflüger, Heinz ^a  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Infertility; Male; Oligospermia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS TUMOR; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0032702973     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(05)68089-5     Document Type: Article

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