Analysis of medical treatment of male infertility

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 1-23

  Kamischke, A ^a   Nieschlag, E ^a  

^a INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fertility prognosis; Hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism; Male infertility; Meta analysis; Randomized clinical trials

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANDROGEN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIESTROGEN; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BROMOCRIPTINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ESTRADIOL; GLUTATHIONE; GONADORELIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; IMIPRAMINE; KALLIKREIN; MESTEROLONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYPTORCHISM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; PATERNITY; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0032829229     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.suppl_1.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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