Serum inhibin B and anti-Müllerian hormone are not superior to follicle-stimulating hormone as predictors of the presence of sperm in testicular fine-needle aspiration in men with azoospermia

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1279-1284

  Goulis, Dimitrios G ^a   Tsametis, Christos ^a   Iliadou, Paschalia K ^a   Polychronou, Paris ^a   Kantartzi, Persefoni Dimitra ^a   Tarlatzis, Basil C ^a   Bontis, Ioannis N ^a   Papadimas, Ioannis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

anti M llerian hormone; Follicle stimulating hormone; inhibin B; male infertility; sperm retrieval; testicular fine needle aspiration biopsy

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN B; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SPERM; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CRYPTORCHIDISM; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOA; VARICOCELE;

EID: 62949137259     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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