Fresh testicular sperm retrieved from men with spinal cord injury retains equal fecundity to that from men with obstructive azoospermia via intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1333-1336

  Kanto, Satoru ^a   Uto, Hirofumi ^a   Toya, Mayumi ^a   Ohnuma, Tetsutaro ^a   Arai, Yoichi ^a   Kyono, Koichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ICSI; Infertility; male; sperm; spinal cord injury; testis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349452179     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.07.1776     Document Type: Article

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