Update on surgical sperm recovery - The European view

Human Fertility

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 242-246

  Tournaye, Herman ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

percutaneous sperm aspiration from epididymis (PESA); Surgical sperm retrieval; testis

Indexed keywords

TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

AZOOSPERMIA; EUROPE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; REVIEW; SPERM DONOR; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS BIOPSY; VASOVASOSTOMY;

AZOOSPERMIA; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78649974912     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14647273.2010.522677     Document Type: Review

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