Gonadotropin treatment of an azoospermic patient with a Y-chromosome microdeletion

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 218-219

  Selman, Helmy A ^a   Cipollone, Giovanni ^b   Stuppia, Liborio ^c   De Santo, Mariella ^a   Sterzik, Karl ^d   El Danasouri, Imam ^a,d  

^a Ospedale Spatocco   (Italy)

^b SANT'ANDREA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d Institute for Reproductive Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; human chorionic gonadotropin; human recombinant FSH; intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Y chromosome screening

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; RECOMBINANT HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME DELETION Y; DELIVERY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE DELETION; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOGENESIS; TWINS;

EID: 3242802131     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.11.055     Document Type: Article

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