Severe hypospermatogenesis in cases of nonobstructive azoospermia: Should we use fresh or frozen testicular spermatozoa?

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 772-778

  Hauser, Ron ^a,b   Yogev, Leah ^a   Amit, Ami ^a   Yavetz, Haim ^a   Botchan, Amnon ^a   Azem, Fuad ^a   Lessing, Joseph B ^a   Ben Yosef, Dalit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Implantation; IVF ICSI; Testicular sperm extraction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPLANTATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTE MATURATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; THAWING;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 26944475137     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.05044     Document Type: Article

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