Clinical management of men producing ejaculates characterized by high levels of dead sperm and altered seminal plasma factors consistent with epididymal necrospermia

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1148-1150

  Correa Pérez, Juan R ^a   Fernández Pelegrina, Rene ^a   Aslanis, Pavlos ^b   Zavos, Panayiotis M ^b,c  

^a Centro de Fertilidad del Caribe   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c Andrology Institute of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMAL NECROSPERMIA; EPIDIDYMIS DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY;

ADULT; CELL DEATH; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; SEMEN; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 17444448781     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.09.047     Document Type: Article

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