Embryos generated using testicular spermatozoa have higher developmental potential than those obtained using epididymal spermatozoa in men with obstructive azoospermia

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 606-611

  Dozortsev, Dmitri ^a,b   Neme, Rosa ^a   Diamond, Michael P ^c   Abdelmassih, Soraya ^a   Abdelmassih, Vicente ^a   Oliveira, Flavio ^a   Abdelmassih, Roger ^a  

^a Clinica e Centro de Pesquisa em Reproducao Humana Roger Abdelmassih   (Brazil)

^b CAMC Health System   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fertilization rate; miscarriage; Obstructive azoospermia; PESA; pregnancy rate; TESA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; AZOOSPERMIA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOZOON; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS;

BRAZIL; EMBRYO; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748113143     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.01.036     Document Type: Article

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