The diagnosis and treatment of the azoospermic patient in the age of intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 895-911

  Hopps, Carin V ^a,b   Goldstein, Marc ^a,b   Schlegel, Peter N ^a,b,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; TESTOLACTONE;

AZOOSPERMIA; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; VARICOCELE;

HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 0036867862     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-0143(02)00083-6     Document Type: Review

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