Clearance after vasectomy with a single semen sample containing < than 100 000 immotile sperm/mL: Analysis of 1073 patients

BJU International

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1572-1575

  Korthorst, Ruben A ^a   Consten, Dimitri ^a   Van Roijen, J Herman ^a  

^a Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Clearance; Guideline; Semen analysis; Sperm; Vasectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DILUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VASECTOMY; VISCOSITY;

AZOOSPERMIA; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASECTOMY;

EID: 77952167088     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.09074.x     Document Type: Article

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