Treatment of idiopathic and postvaricocelectomy oligozoospermia with oral tamoxifen citrate

BJU International

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 646-648

  Kadioglu, T C ^a   Köksal, I Türker ^a,b   Tunc M ^a   Nane, I ^a   Tellaloglu, S ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Serifkuyu Sokak Koksal apt 33/6 ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TAMOXIFEN CITRATE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; VARICOCELE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 0032934860     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410X.1999.00976.x     Document Type: Article

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