Sex and the infertile male

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 186-190

  Gurkan, Levent ^a   Raynor, Mathew C ^a   Hellstrom, Wayne J G ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Erectile dysfunction; Male infertility; Sexual dysfunction

Indexed keywords

NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; SILDENAFIL; TADALAFIL; VARDENAFIL;

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; LIBIDO DISORDER; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; NONARTERITIC ANTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTCOITAL TEST; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE EJACULATION; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; VAGINISM;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SEXUALITY;

EID: 63449105941     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1202308     Document Type: Article

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