Contemporary management of male infertility

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 525-540

  Stahl, Peter J ^a   Stember, Doron S ^b   Goldstein, Marc ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Infertility; Microsurgery; Spermatozoa; Sterility; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANASTROZOLE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE; DEXAMETHASONE; EPHEDRINE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; IMIPRAMINE; LETROZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SILDENAFIL; SPERM ANTIBODY; TADALAFIL; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOLACTONE; VARDENAFIL;

ASTHENOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFICACY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LEYDIG CELL; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MALE INFERTILITY; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

ANTIOXIDANTS; HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84855959589     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: 1545326X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-med-051810-101036     Document Type: Review

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