Low levels of serum inhibin B do not exclude successful sperm recovery in men with nonmosaic Klinefelter syndrome [5]

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 79, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2003, Pages 1680-1682

  Westlander, Göran ^a   Ekerhovd, Erling ^a   Bergh, Christina ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INHIBIN B;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FATHER; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGONADISM; INFERTILITY; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LETTER; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS BIOPSY;

EID: 0038511157     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(03)00403-5     Document Type: Letter

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