Evidence-based management of male subfertility

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 253-259

  Tournaye, Herman ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Andrology; Male subfertility; Oligozoospermia

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANDROGEN; ANTIESTROGEN; ANTIOXIDANT; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; BROMOCRIPTINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; CORTICOSTEROID; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; IMMUNOLOGIC AGENT; KALLIKREIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; QUININE; TAMOXIFEN;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBFERTILITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 33744998675     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gco.0000192994.37965.c6     Document Type: Review

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