The role of ultrasonographically guided puncture of the human rete testis in the therapeutic management of nonobstructive azoospermia

Andrologia

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 85-92

  Kaponis, A ^a   Yiannakis, D ^b   Tsoukanelis, K ^b   Tsalikis, D ^b   Tsabalas, D ^b   Baltogiannis, D ^b   Giannakopoulos, X ^b   Schrader, M ^c   Georgiou, I ^b   Yamamoto, Y ^a   Kanakas, N ^a,b   Miyagawa, I ^a   Loutradis, D ^a   Touloupidis, S ^d   Sofikitis, N ^a,b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c Berlin University Medical School   (Germany)

^d Department of Urology   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Human rete testis; Nonobstructive azoospermia

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PUNCTURE; RETE TESTIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; VASCULARIZATION;

BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMEN; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; TESTIS;

EID: 0037387180     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0272.2003.00526.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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