History of cryptorchidism and ejaculate volume as simple predictors for the presence of testicular sperm

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 154-161

  Fedder, Jens ^a  

^a HORSENS REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

aspermia; azoospermia; CFTR mutations; cryptorchidism; ejaculate volume

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATURATION; MUTATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS; TISSUE; VAS DEFERENS; VASECTOMY;

AZOOSPERMIA; BIOPSY; CRYPTORCHIDISM; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; EJACULATION; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 79956123686     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2010.550796     Document Type: Article

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