Sperm retrieval for azoospermia and intracytoplasmic sperm injection success rates - A personal overview

Human Fertility

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 247-256

  Silber, Sherman J ^a  

^a ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI); microsurgical sperm aspiration (MESA)

Indexed keywords

AZOOSPERMIA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MICROSURGICAL EPIDIDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY RATE; REVIEW; SPERM DONOR; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS BIOPSY; TUNICA ALBUGINEA; TUNICA VAGINALIS;

AZOOSPERMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78649949911     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14647273.2010.534529     Document Type: Review

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