Clinical outcome of intracytoplasmic sperm injection in infertile men with treated and untreated clinical varicocele

Journal of Urology

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1442-1446

  Esteves, Sandro C ^a   Oliveira, Fernanda V ^a   Bertolla, Ricardo P ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

abortion; infertility; intracytoplasmic; male; sperm injections; spontaneous; testis; varicocele

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY, MALE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VARICOCELE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; VARICOCELE;

EID: 77956535596     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.06.004     Document Type: Article

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