Reassessing Reconstruction in the Management of Obstructive Azoospermia: Reconstruction or Sperm Acquisition?

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 289-301

  Lee, Richard ^a   Li, Philip S ^a   Schlegel, Peter N ^a,b   Goldstein, Marc ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPERM RETRIEVAL; TESTIS BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASOVASOSTOMY;

AZOOSPERMIA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 42149123757     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2008.01.005     Document Type: Review

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