Validation of sperm counting methods using limits of agreement

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 364-373

  Bailey, Eleanor ^a   Fenning, Nick ^a   Chamberlain, Sarah ^a   Devlin, Lindsey ^a   Hopkisson, James ^a   Tomlinson, Mathew ^a,b  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DEVICE; DILUTION; EJACULATION; HEMOCYTOMETER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAKLER CHAMBER; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MASTURBATION; MICROSCOPY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPERM COUNT;

EID: 34247491038     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2164/jandrol.106.002188     Document Type: Article

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