Diagnostic Approach to the Infertile Male Patient

Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 297-311

  Jarow, Jonathan P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SUBFERTILITY; TESTIS BIOPSY; VARICOCELE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, ENDOCRINE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SEMEN;

EID: 34249286620     PISSN: 08898529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecl.2007.03.012     Document Type: Review

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