EAU guidelines on male infertility

European Urology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 313-322

  Weidner, W ^a   Colpi, G M ^a   Hargreave, T B ^a   Papp, G K ^a   Pomerol, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Genetic disorders; Hypogonadism; Male infertility; Oligozoospermia; Refertilisation; Urogenital infections; Varicocele; Vasectomy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BROMOCRIPTINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DICLOFENAC; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; INDOMETACIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; AUTOSOMAL DISORDER; AZOOSPERMIA; CRYPTORCHISM; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDIDYMITIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; IDIOPATHIC OLIGOASTHENOTERATOZOOSPERMIA; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGERY; OLIGOSPERMIA; ORCHIDOPEXY; ORCHIECTOMY; ORCHITIS; PRIMARY SPERMATOGENIC FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; VARICOCELE; VASECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GENETICS; HYPOGONADISM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VASOVASOSTOMY;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; EPIDIDYMITIS; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; OLIGOSPERMIA; ORCHITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VARICOCELE; VASECTOMY; VASOVASOSTOMY;

EID: 0036795249     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0302-2838(02)00367-6     Document Type: Article

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