Percutaneous Epididymal Sperm Aspiration Followed by Intrauterine Insemination - A New Approach to Achieve a Pregnancy in Infertility due to Obstructive Azoospermia

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 445-447

  Chatterjee, Siddhartha ^a   Chaudhuri, Anjana Ray ^a   Chowdhuri, R G ^a   Rahman, Stephanie ^a  

^a Repose Fertility Clinic   (India)

Author keywords

Epididymal sperm aspiration (ESA); Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI); Intrauterine insemination (IUI); Microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration (MESA); Percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration (PESA); Pregnancy rate (PR)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CYTOLOGY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MICROSURGERY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035436751     PISSN: 00195847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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