Science versus clinical adventurism in treatment of azoospermia

Lancet

Volumn 353, Issue 9152, 1999, Pages 516-517

  Steele, E K ^a   Lewis, S E M ^a   McClure, N ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA DAMAGE; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OBSTRUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY;

EID: 0032993553     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)00312-2     Document Type: Note

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