Serum inhibin B may be a reliable marker of the presence of testicular spermatozoa in patients with nonobstructive azoospermia

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1124-1129

  Brugo Olmedo, Santiago ^a   De Vincentiis, Sabrina ^a   Calamera, Juan C ^b   Urrutia, Fernando ^a   Nodar, Florencia ^a   Acosta, Aníbal A ^a  

^a Centro de Estudios en Ginecologia y Reproduccion Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^b Laboratory of Studies in Reproduction (LER)   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Nonobstructive azoospermia; Serum FSH; Serum inhibin B; Testicular spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE MARKER; EXTRACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS BIOPSY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTIS;

EID: 0035205138     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(01)02866-7     Document Type: Article

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