Treatment of male infertility

Contraception

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 314-318

  Isidori, Aldo ^a   Latini, Maurizio ^a   Romanelli, Francesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

ARTs; ICSI; Idiopathic infertility; Male factor infertility

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTIESTROGEN; ARGININE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; BROMOCRIPTINE; CABERGOLINE; CARNITINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE; GLUTATHIONE; GONADORELIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; MINERAL; PENTOXIFYLLINE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TAMOXIFEN; VITAMIN;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CONCEPTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; OLIGOSPERMIA; REPRODUCTION; SCLEROTHERAPY; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE;

ANDROGENS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 25144475338     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2005.05.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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