Birth after treatment of a male with seminoma and azoospermia with cryopreserved-thawed testicular tissue

Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 861-864

  Reš, Uršula ^a,c   Reš, Primoz ^a   Kastelic, Darja ^b   Stanovnik, Marjeta ^b   Kmetec, Andrej ^a   Merlo, Aleksander ^b  

^a Centre for Infertility Treatment Postojna   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Cryopreservation; ICSI; Seminoma; TESE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CASE REPORT; CRYOPRESERVATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINOMA; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; TESTIS TUMOR;

EID: 0034027146     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/15.4.861     Document Type: Article

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