Pregnancy from intracytoplasmic sperm injection of a sperm head and detached tail

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 686-688

  Emery, Benjamin R ^a   Thorp, Cindy ^b   Malo, John W ^b   Carrell, Douglas T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Reproductive Medicine Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal plate; Centrosome; Easily decapitated sperm syndrome; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CENTROSOME; CLINICAL FEATURE; EASILY DECAPITATED SPERM SYNDROME; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MIDPIECE; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CENTROSOME; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM HEAD; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 1642263229     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.07.025     Document Type: Article

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