Advanced surgical sperm recovery is a viable option for intracytoplasmic sperm injection in patients with obstructive or nonobstructive azoospermia

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 479-483

  Jaroudi, Kamal ^a   Coskun, Serdar ^a   Hollanders, Johannes ^a   Al Hassan, Saad ^a   Al Sufayan, Hamad ^a   Atared, Amal ^a   Merdad, Talel ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; ICSI; Preservation; Testis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS BIOPSY;

BIOPSY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERMATOZOA; SUCTION; TESTIS;

EID: 0033200168     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00298-8     Document Type: Article

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