High serum FSH levels in men with nonobstructive azoospermia does not affect success of microdissection testicular sperm extraction

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 590-593

  Ramasamy, Ranjith ^a   Lin, Kathleen ^b   Gosden, Lucinda Veeck ^a   Rosenwaks, Zev ^a   Palermo, Gianpiero D ^a   Schlegel, Peter N ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; biopsy; FSH; microdissection; predictors; pregnancy; TESE; testis

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BIRTH RATE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICRODISSECTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM RETRIEVAL; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AZOOSPERMIA; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651108826     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.07.1703     Document Type: Article

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