Ooplasmic injection of elongating spermatids for the treatment of non-obstructive azoospermia

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 709-714

  Sofikitis, Nikolaos V ^a,d   Yamamoto, Yasuhisa ^a   Miyagawa, Ikuo ^a   Mekras, George ^a   Mio, Yasuyuki ^b   Toda, Toshiko ^c   Antypas, Spyros ^d   Kawamura, Hiroshi ^d   Kanakas, Nikolaos ^d   Antoniou, Nikolaos ^d   Loutradis, Dimitrios ^e   Mantzavinos, Themis ^e   Kalianidis, Konstadinos ^e   Agapitos, Emmanouel ^e  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MFC Clinic   (Japan)

^c Infertility Clinic   (Japan)

^d Japanese Greek Fertility Institute

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Infertility; Spermatids; Testis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CELL SHAPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERMATID; TESTIS BIOPSY;

EID: 18144438769     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.3.709     Document Type: Article

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