Male factor infertility: Evaluation and management

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 367-385

  Brugh III, Victor M ^a   Lipshultz, Larry I ^b  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MINERALOCORTICOID; TESTOSTERONE;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; AZOOSPERMIA; CRYPTORCHISM; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EJACULATION DISORDER; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EVALUATION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC DISORDER; GONADORELIN RELEASE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; MALE INFERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUBFERTILITY; UNITED STATES; VARICOCELE;

EID: 1242269766     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-7125(03)00150-0     Document Type: Review

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