Male reproductive tract abnormalities: More common after assisted reproduction?

Early Human Development

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 547-550

  Funke, Simone ^a   Flach, Edina ^a   Kiss, István ^a   Sándor, János ^b   Vida, Gabriella ^a   Bódis, József ^a   Ertl, Tibor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Male reproductive tract abnormalities; Testicular dysgenesis syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED REPRODUCTION; CRYPTORCHISM; DEL CASTILLO SYNDROME; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TWIN PREGNANCY;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; HUNGARY; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK FACTORS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TESTICULAR DISEASES;

EID: 77956340531     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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