Italian pilot study for an external quality control scheme in semen analysis and antisperm antibodies detection

International Journal of Andrology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-3

  Gandini, Loredana ^a   Menditto, Antonio ^a,b   Chiodo, Ferdinando ^a,b   Lenzi, Andrea ^a   Vanderschueren, Dirk ^c  

^a Dept of Medical Physiopathology   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; GELATIN; NITROGEN; SPERM ANTIBODY;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ITALY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PILOT STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SAMPLE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0034004117     PISSN: 01056263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2605.2000.00208.x     Document Type: Article

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