Pregnancy outcomes by intravaginal and intrauterine insemination in 82 couples with male factor infertility due to spinal cord injuries

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 328-331

  Kathiresan, Anupama S Q ^a   Ibrahim, Emad ^a   Aballa, Teodoro C ^a   Attia, George R ^a   Lynne, Charles M ^a   Brackett, Nancy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

intrauterine insemination; intravaginal insemination; male infertility; pregnancy outcomes; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; INTRAVAGINAL INSEMINATION; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MASTURBATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HOMOLOGOUS; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960630747     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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