Absolute asthenozoospermia and ICSI: What are the options?

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 684-692

  Ortega, C ^a   Verheyen, G ^a   Raick, D ^b   Camus, M ^a   Devroey, P ^a   Tournaye, H ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b IVF Laboratory   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asthenozoospermia; ICSI; Immotile spermatozoa; Male infertility; Sperm viability testing

Indexed keywords

PENTOXIFYLLINE;

ASTHENOSPERMIA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; NECROZOOSPERMIA; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMEN ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051929142     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmr018     Document Type: Review

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