Common medications and drugs: How they affect male fertility

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 965-973

  Nudell, David M ^a   Monoski, Mara M ^a   Lipshultz, Larry I ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ANDROGEN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CHLORMETHINE; CIMETIDINE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ESTROGEN; ETOPOSIDE; HORMONE; ILLICIT DRUG; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; TIOGUANINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VINBLASTINE; VINCA ALKALOID; VINCRISTINE;

DRUG ABUSE; EJACULATION DISORDER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMINIZATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LIBIDO DISORDER; MALE FERTILITY; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTIS ATROPHY;

FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS;

EID: 0036866777     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-0143(02)00079-4     Document Type: Review

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