A decision analysis of treatments for nonobstructive azoospermia associated with varicocele

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 188-196

  Lee, Richard ^a   Li, Philip S ^a   Goldstein, Marc ^a,b   Schattman, Glenn ^a   Schlegel, Peter N ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted reproductive techniques; azoospermia; cost benefit analysis; decision support techniques; Male infertility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

ALGORITHMS; AZOOSPERMIA; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOA; VARICOCELE;

EID: 67649107702     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.05.053     Document Type: Article

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