Surgical techniques for the management of male infertility

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 94-102

  Lopushnyan, Natalya A ^a   Walsh, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

male infertility; testis; varicocele

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SCLEROSING AGENT; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTERY INJURY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EJACULATORY DUCT OBSTRUCTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDIDYMITIS; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEMATURIA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; HYPOGONADISM; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MALE INFERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY SURGERY; MALE STERILIZATION REVERSAL; MICRODISSECTION TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; MICROSCOPIC EPIDIDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; ORCHITIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERCUTANEOUS EMBOLIZATION; PERCUTANEOUS EPIDIDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATIC CORD; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBFERTILITY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TESTICULAR ARTERY INJURY; TESTICULAR SPERM ASPIRATION; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY; VASOEPIDIDYMOSTOMY; VASOVASOSTOMY; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

BIOPSY; EJACULATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 84855466286     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2011.62     Document Type: Review

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