Factors affecting the success of intracytoplasmic sperm injection in cases of nonobstructive azoospermia

Reproductive Technologies

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 261-267

  Sallam, H N ^a   Farrag, A ^a   Agameya, A F ^a   Ezzeldin, F ^a   Sallam, A ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL CULTURE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SWELLING; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; FREEZING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MICROSURGERY; OSMOSIS; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TESTIS BIOPSY;

EID: 0035063569     PISSN: 15284840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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