In vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection for male infertility

Indian Journal of Urology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 121-132

  Merchant, Rubina ^a   Gandhi, Goral ^a   Allahbadia, Gautam N ^a  

^a Near Otters Club   (India)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; azoospermia; in vitro fertilization; intracytoplasmic sperm injection; male factor infertility; microsurgical sperm extraction; oligoasthenoteratozoospermia; preimplantation genetic diagnosis; sperm cryopreservation

Indexed keywords

PREDNISONE; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ABORTION; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS DEATH; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE INFERTILITY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MICROSURGERY; MICROSURGICAL SPERM EXTRACTION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 79954457960     PISSN: 09701591     EISSN: 19983824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-1591.78430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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