Necrospermia and chronic spinal cord injury

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 221-227

  Mallidis, Con ^a,b,c   Lim, Terence C ^d   Hill, Steven T ^d   Skinner, Deborah J ^d   Brown, Douglas J ^d   Johnston, W Ian H ^b   Gordon Baker, H W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Royal Women's Hos and Melbourne IVF   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electroejaculation; Epididymis; Infertility; Necrospermia; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EJACULATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NECROSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS;

ADULT; EJACULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TESTIS;

EID: 0034254285     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)00650-6     Document Type: Article

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