Should ICSI be the treatment of choice for all cases of in-vitro conception?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1278-1283

  Fishel, Simon ^a   Aslam, Irfan ^a   Lisi, Franco ^b   Rinaldi, Leonardo ^b   Timson, Judy ^a   Jacobson, Merwyn ^c   Gobetz, Lawrence ^c   Green, Steve ^a   Campbell, Alison ^a   Lisi, Rosella ^b  

^a Park Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b Casa di Cura Villa Europa all'EUR   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Assisted conception; ICSI; Infertility; IVF; Micro injection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPERMATOZOON;

EID: 0034119174     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/15.6.1278     Document Type: Article

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