Intracytoplasmic Spermatid Injection Can Result in the Delivery of Normal Offspring

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 757-764

  Mansour, Ragaa T ^a   Fahmy, Ibrahim M ^a,b   Taha, Ahmed K ^a   Tawab, Nevine A ^a   Serour, Gamal I ^a   Aboulghar, Mohamed A ^a  

^a EGYPTIAN IVF ET CENTER   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

ICSI; Nonobstructive azoospermia; TESE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; BIOPSY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; NEWBORN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TESTIS; TRANSPLANTATION;

BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATIDS; TESTIS;

EID: 0642373680     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2003.tb02738.x     Document Type: Article

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