Physical deformities relevant to male infertility

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 156-174

  Singh, Rajender ^a   Hamada, Alaa J ^b   Bukavina, Laura ^b   Agarwal, Ashok ^b  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ANTIANGINA PECTORIS AGENT; CAPSAICIN; CATALASE; CELL ANTIBODY; DEXAMETHASONE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; E SELECTIN ANTIBODY; GINSENG EXTRACT; GUANETHIDINE; KOREAN RED GINSENG EXTRACT; LIDOCAINE; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MEXILETINE; MONTELUKAST; MORPHINE; N(G) METHYLARGININE; PAPAVERINE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; POLYCYSTIN; QUERCETIN; ROSUVASTATIN; SIMVASTATIN; SIVELESTAT; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; UBIDECARENONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VERAPAMIL; ZINC ASPARTATE;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CELL MATURATION; CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF THE VAS DEFERENS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYPTORCHISM; CYST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EJACULATION DISORDER; EJACULATORY DUCT OBSTRUCTION; EPIDIDYMAL CYST; EPIDIDYMIS DISEASE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; HYPOSPADIAS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICRORCHIDIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGOSPERMIA; ORCHIDOPEXY; ORCHIECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYORCHIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CYST; PROSTATE DISEASE; REVIEW; SCROTAL SWELLING; SCROTUM DISORDER; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS SIZE; TESTIS TORSION; TESTOSTERONE RELEASE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VARICOCELE; VAS DEFERENS; VAS DEFERENS DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; EPIDIDYMIS; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 84862822106     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2012.11     Document Type: Review

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