The use of novel semen quality scores to predict pregnancy in couples with male-factor infertility undergoing intrauterine insemination

Journal of Andrology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 353-360

  Bedaiwy, Mohamed A ^a   Sharma, Rakesh K ^a   Alhussaini, Tarek K ^a   Mohamed, Maher S ^a   Abdel Aleem, Ali M ^a   Nelson, David R ^b   Thomas Jr , Anthony J ^a   Agarwal, Ashok ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

Outcome prediction; Overall semen quality; Relative quality; Semen pregnancy score

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; MARITAL THERAPY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

EID: 4544260502     PISSN: 01963635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1939-4640.2003.tb02682.x     Document Type: Article

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