An overview of male infertility in the era of intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Chinese Medical Journal (Taipei)

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 71-83

  Kim, E D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Genetics; ICSI; Male infertility; Sperm retrieval

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BIRTH DEFECT; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EJACULATORY DUCT; EVALUATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPING; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MALE STERILIZATION REVERSAL; OBSTRUCTION; PARAMETER; PATIENT SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; REVIEW; SPERM; SUBFERTILITY; TECHNOLOGY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGY; VARICOCELE;

CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0035028190     PISSN: 05781337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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