Clinical, laboratory and genetic assessment of patients with congenital bilateral absent vas deferens

Andrologia

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-22

  Hussein, T M ^a   Zakaria, N H ^a   Zahran, A M ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Absent vas; Assisted reproduction; Azoospermia; CFTR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONGENITAL BILATERAL ABSENT VAS DEFEREN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; FERTILIZATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PREGNANCY RATE; RADIOLOGY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

ADULT; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; EGYPT; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 78651241033     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2009.01001.x     Document Type: Article

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