Significant decrease in sperm deoxyribonucleic acid fragmentation after varicocelectomy

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1800-1804

  Werthman, Philip ^a   Wixon, Regina ^b   Kasperson, Kay ^b   Evenson, Donald P ^b  

^a Ctr for Male Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DFI; male infertility; SCSA; sperm DNA fragmentation; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA INTEGRATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOWN-REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; VARICOCELE;

EID: 55149091372     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.09.019     Document Type: Article

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