Clinical pregnancies and livebirths achieved by intracytoplasmic injection of round headed acrosomeless spermatozoa with and without oocyte activation in familial globozoospermia: Case report

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 332-336

  Dirican, Enver K ^a   Isik, Ahmet ^a   Vicdan, Kubilay ^a   Sozen, Eran ^a   Suludere, Zekiye ^a  

^a Private Ankara IVF Center   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acrosome; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Scanning electron microscopy; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL ACTIVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GLOBOZOOSPERMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; OOCYTE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SIBLING; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACROSOME; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; SPERM HEAD; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40349116663     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2008.00248.x     Document Type: Article

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