Debate: Is ICSI a genetic time bomb? No: ICSI is safe and effective

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-21

  Schlegel, Peter N ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033025218     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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