Do characteristic spermatozoal morphological abnormalities exist in patients who have undergone unilateral orchiectomy and preventive radiotherapy?

International Journal of Fertility and Women's Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 83-87

  Panidis, Dimitrios ^a   Rousso, David ^a,c   Matalliotakis, Ioannis ^b   Kourtis, Anargyros ^a   Mavromatidis, Georgios ^a   Mamopoulos, Michael ^a   Koumantakis, Evgenios ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fertile semen; Infertile semen; Orchiectomy; Seminoma; Sperm morphology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINOMA; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; SEMINOMA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOZOA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038136773     PISSN: 1534892X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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