Pregnancy after varicocelectomy: Impact of postoperative motility and DFI

Urology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 760-766

  Baker, Karen ^a   McGill, John ^b   Sharma, Rakesh ^a   Agarwal, Ashok ^a   Sabanegh Jr , Edmund ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CONCEPTION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; VARICOCELE; VARICOCELECTOMY;

ADULT; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM MOTILITY; VARICOCELE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875552607     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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