The evaluation and management of the azoospermic patient

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 293-305

  Kolettis, Peter N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

AGENESIS; ANAMNESIS; AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL BILATERAL ABSENCE OF VAS DEFERENS; EJACULATORY DUCT OBSTRUCTION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPIDIDYMIS OBSTRUCTION; GENETIC DISORDER; INCIDENCE; KARYOTYPING; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGERY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; TESTIS BIOPSY; VARICOCELE; VAS DEFERENS; VASECTOMY;

HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; OLIGOSPERMIA;

EID: 0036217997     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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