Frozen embryos generated from surgically retrieved sperm from azoospermic men: Are they clinically viable?

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 401-407

  Nicopoullos, James D M ^a   Ramsay, Jonathan W A ^b   Gilling Smith, Carole ^a   Almeida, Paula A ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Cryopreservation; Frozen embryo cycles; ICSI; Surgical sperm retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BIRTH RATE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPLANTATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERM;

ADULT; BIRTH RATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 12944257105     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-004-7528-5     Document Type: Article

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