Microsurgical management of male infertility

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 381-391

  Goldstein, Marc ^a   Tanrikut, Cigdem ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Male infertility; Microsurgery; Varicocele; Vasoepididymostomy; Vasovasostomy

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY LIGATION; AZOOSPERMIA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE INFERTILITY; MALE STERILIZATION REVERSAL; MICROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOCELE; VASOVASOSTOMY;

AZOOSPERMIA; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 33745958598     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0524     Document Type: Review

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