Testicular histopathology as a predictor of a positive sperm retrieval in men with non-obstructive azoospermia

BJU International

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 492-499

  Abdel Raheem, Amr ^a,d   Garaffa, Giulio ^a   Rushwan, Nagla ^b   De Luca, Francesco ^a   Zacharakis, Evangelos ^a   Abdel Raheem, Tarek ^a   Freeman, Alex ^a   Serhal, Paul ^c   Harper, Joyce C ^b,c   Ralph, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Reproductive and Genetic Health   (United Kingdom)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

azoospermia; ICSI; male infertility; TESE

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JOHNSEN SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS SIZE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874661489     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11203.x     Document Type: Article

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