The male factor of infertility should not be an issue for the selection of patients for extended embryo culture programmes

Andrology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 758-763

  Braga, D P A F ^a,b   Setti, A S ^a,b   Vingris, L ^a   Figueira, R C S ^a   Iaconelli, A ^a   Borges, E ^a,b  

^a Centro de Fertilização Assistida   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Sapientiae   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Azoospermia; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Sperm retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

AZOOSPERMIA; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; SPERM RETRIEVAL;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; COHORT STUDIES; EJACULATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM COUNT; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84883015380     PISSN: 20472919     EISSN: 20472927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2047-2927.2013.00112.x     Document Type: Article

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