Early versus late maturation arrest: Reproductive outcomes of testicular failure

Journal of Urology

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 621-626

  Weedin, John W ^a   Bennett, Richard C ^a   Fenig, David M ^a   Lamb, Dolores J ^a   Lipshultz, Larry I ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

azoospermia; biopsy; infertility; male; sperm maturation; testis

Indexed keywords

ASIALOCHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOZOOSPERMIA; EARLY MATURATION ARREST; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOSPERMATOGENESIS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LATE MATURATION ARREST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONOBSTRUCTIVE AZOOSPERMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTICULAR FAILURE; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS MAPPING; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960157658     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2011.03.156     Document Type: Article

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