Predictive value of semen parameters in in vitro fertilisation pregnancy outcome

Andrologia

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-117

  Chen, X ^a   Zhang, W ^a   Luo, Y ^a   Long, X ^a   Sun, X ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fertilisation in vitro; Male infertility; Receiver operating characteristic curve; Semen analysis

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PARAMETER; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM DEFORMITY INDEX; SPERM MORPHOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TERATOZOOSPERMIC INDEX;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

EID: 61449239108     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2008.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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