What does the clinician need from an andrology laboratory?

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 5 E, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 289-304

  Snow Lisy, Devon C ^a   Sabanegh, Edmund ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Andrology; Clinical evaluation; Infertility; Review; Semen analysis; Specialized semen tests

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ACCREDITATION; ALGORITHM; ANDROLOGY; CERTIFICATION; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KALLMANN SYNDROME; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; LIQUEFACTION; PH; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS TUMOR; URINALYSIS; VARICOCELE; VISCOSITY; ADULT; CASE REPORT; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ACCREDITATION; ADULT; ANDROLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SEMEN ANALYSIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878517752     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/e616     Document Type: Review

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