Sperm recovery prediction in azoospermic patients using Doppler ultrasonography

International Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 535-540

  de Souza, Carlos Augusto Bastos ^a   Cunha Filho, J S L ^a   Fagundes, P ^b   Freitas, F M ^a   Passos, E P ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b Servico Genet Medica Do Hosp C   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Color Doppler; Male infertility; Testicular sperm extraction; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; MICROVASCULATURE; PULSATILE FLOW; TESTIS BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 28844497975     PISSN: 03011623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-005-0918-5     Document Type: Article

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