Effect of leukocytospermia on fertilization and pregnancy rates of artificial reproductive technologies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 869-871

  Lackner, Jakob E ^a   Märk, Isabel ^a   Sator, Katharina ^a   Huber, Johannes ^a   Sator, Michael ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TRIPTORELIN;

ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LEUKOCYTE DISORDER; LEUKOCYTOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51449107673     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.1310     Document Type: Article

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