Shattering the myths about male infertility: Treatment of male factors may be more successful and cost-effective than you think

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 235-245

  Sandlow, Jay I ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBAMATE INSECTICIDE; FUNGICIDE; GONADOTROPIN; HEAVY METAL; HERBICIDE; ILLICIT DRUG; ORGANIC SOLVENT; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; SPERMICIDAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SUBFERTILITY; THERMAL EXPOSURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VARICOCELE; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 0033962123     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2000.02.902     Document Type: Article

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