Testicular biopsy: Clinical practice and interpretation

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 88-93

  Dohle, Gert R ^a   Elzanaty, Saad ^b   Van Casteren, Niels J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

carcinoma in situ of the testis; diagnosis; male infertility; testicular biopsy; testicular germ cellmalignancies; testicular sperm extraction

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE PLACENTA ISOENZYME; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AZOOSPERMIA; CANCER RISK; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CRYPTORCHISM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE INFERTILITY; OBSTRUCTIVE AZOOSPERMIA; ORCHIDOPEXY; PARENCHYMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEMINOMA; SERTOLI CELL ONLY SYNDROME; SPERM; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTICULAR MICROLITHIASIS; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS SIZE; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION;

BIOPSY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS;

EID: 84855468775     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2011.57     Document Type: Review

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