A prospective randomized placebo-controlled study of the effect of acupuncture in infertile patients with severe oligoasthenozoospermia

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1340-1343

  Dieterle, Stefan ^a,b   Li, Chunfang ^a,c   Greb, Robert ^b   Bartzsch, Felix ^a   Hatzmann, Wolfgang ^a   Huang, Dongmei ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Infertility Center Dortmund   (Germany)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PLACEBOS; PREGNANCY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349451601     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.02.041     Document Type: Article

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