Progression to the blastocyst stage of embryos derived from testicular round spermatids

Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1377-1382

  Balaban, Basak ^b   Urman, Bulent ^a   Isiklar, Aycan ^b   Alatas, Cengiz ^b   Aksoy, Senai ^b   Mercan, Ramazan ^b   Nuhoglu, Alp ^b  

^a AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Blastocyst; Spermatid; Spermatozoa; Testicular sperm extraction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OOCYTE; SPERMATID; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0034034910     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/15.6.1377     Document Type: Article

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