Sperm Recovery and IVF after Testicular Sperm Extraction (TESE): Effect of Male Diagnosis and Use of Off-Site Surgical Centers on Sperm Recovery and IVF

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Omurtag, Kenan ^a   Cooper, Amber ^a   Bullock, Arnold ^b   Naughton, Cathy ^c   Ratts, Valerie ^a   Odem, Randall ^a   Lanzendorf, Susan E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Metropolitan Urological Specialists   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE STERILIZATION REVERSAL; NEOPLASM; NIDATION; OOCYTE; PARALYSIS; SPERM RECOVERY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; VAS DEFERENS; VASECTOMY;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84880798530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069838     Document Type: Article

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