Predicting sperm retrieval rates in testicular sperm extraction for azoospermia according to endocrine profiles

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 239-245

  Jinno, Masao ^a   Ozaki, Tsuneo ^b   Nakamura, Yukio ^c   Iwashita, Mitsutoshi ^c  

^a Women's Clinic Jinno   (Japan)

^b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology   (Japan)

^c KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Endocrinology; Etiology; Sperm retrieval rate; Testicular sperm extraction

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; BROMOCRIPTINE; BROMOCRIPTINE MESILATE; BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SUPRECOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTORCHISM; ECHOGRAPHY; EJACULATION DISORDER; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RISK FACTOR; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 29644436862     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2005.00113.x     Document Type: Article

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