Practical approaches to the diagnosis and management of male infertility

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 226-238

  Turek, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Azoospermia; Male infertility; Oligospermia; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALCOHOL; ALKYLATING AGENT; ALLOPURINOL; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ARSENIC; CAFFEINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CANNABIS; CIMETIDINE; COCAINE; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIBROMOCHLOROPROPANE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; HORMONE; LEAD; LITHIUM; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NICOTINE; NITROFURANTOIN; PHENYTOIN; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; SPIRONOLACTONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VALPROIC ACID;

ALGORITHM; ASTHENOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COITUS; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; COUNSELING; EJACULATORY DUCT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; META ANALYSIS; OLIGOSPERMIA; PEER REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VARICOCELE; VASOVASOSTOMY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE;

EID: 20444468566     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0166     Document Type: Review

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