The difficult MESA: Findings from tubuli recti sperm aspiration

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 31-35

  Zenke, Ulrike ^a   Jalalian, Liza ^a   Shen, Shehua ^a   Turek, Paul J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; CBAVD; Epididymal sperm; Infertility; MESA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGENESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION; FREEZING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGERY; MICROSURGICAL EPIDIDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; THAWING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBULI RECTI SPERM ASPIRATION; VAS DEFERENS;

EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETE TESTIS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; SUCTION; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 3543095151     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JARG.0000025935.28895.30     Document Type: Article

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