Serum Inhibin B concentration as a prognostic factor for prediction of Sperm retrieval in testis biopsy of patients with azoospermia

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-56

  Nowroozi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Radkhah, Keivan ^a   Ayati, Mohsen ^a   Jamshidian, Hassan ^a   Ranjbaran, Alireza ^a   Jabalameli, Parviz ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Inhibin B; Sperm retrieval

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INHIBINS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TESTIS;

EID: 39049090009     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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