Etiology of azoospermia in a large nonreferral inner-city population

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 197-199

  Fogle, Robin H ^a   Steiner, Anne Z ^a   Marshall, Freya E ^a   Sokol, Rebecca Z ^a,b  

^a Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CRYPTORCHISM; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONOBSTRUCTIVE AZOOSPERMIA; OBSTRUCTIVE AZOOSPERMIA; OLIGOSPERMIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS INJURY; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREVALENCE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33745505220     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.12.047     Document Type: Article

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