The efficacy of adult orchidopexy as a treatment of male infertility: Our experience of 20 cases

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1337-1339

  Chiba, Koji ^a   Ishikawa, Tomomoto ^a   Yamaguchi, Kohei ^a   Fujisawa, Masato ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYPTORCHISM; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; ORCHIDOPEXY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CRYPTORCHIDISM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM RETRIEVAL; TESTIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349437100     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.03.104     Document Type: Article

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