Techniques for surgical retrieval of sperm prior to intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for azoospermia

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Van Peperstraten, Arno Maarten ^a   Proctor, M L ^a   Johnson, N P ^a   Philipson, G ^a  

^a nr 791 ^*

Author keywords

*Sperm injections, intracytoplasmic; *Spermatozoa; Epididymis cytology ; Humans; Male; Oligospermia therapy ; Randomized controlled trials as topic; Tissue and organ harvesting *methods

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA; COCHRANE LIBRARY; EMBASE; FERTILIZATION; FETUS DISEASE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDLINE; MICROSURGICAL EPIDIDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERCUTANEOUS EPIDIDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; REVIEW; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTICULAR SPERM ASPIRATION;

EID: 44949084630     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002807.pub3     Document Type: Review

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