Successful pregnancy and delivery after testicular sperm extraction despite an undetectable concentration of serum inhibin B in a patient with nonobstructive azoospermia

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1077-1078

  Guthauser, Bruno ^a   Bailly, Marc ^a   Bergere, Marianne ^a   Wainer, Robert ^a   Ville, Yves ^a   Selva, Jacqueline ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER INTERCOMMUNAL   (France)

Author keywords

Inhibin B; Nonobstructive azoospermia; Pregnancy; Sperm extraction (TESE); Testicular exploration

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN B;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; CRYOPRESERVATION; DELIVERY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM PRESERVATION; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS; THAWING;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INHIBINS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 0036257623     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)02974-6     Document Type: Article

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