Sperm quality and its relationship to natural and assisted conception: British Fertility Society Guidelines for practice

Human Fertility

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 175-193

  Tomlinson, Mathew ^a   Lewis, Sheena ^b   Morroll, David ^c  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c SEACROFT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assisted conception; Fertility; Semen analysis

Indexed keywords

SPERM ANTIBODY;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; ASTHENOSPERMIA; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DNA DAMAGE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HETEROLOGOUS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HOMOLOGOUS; ISOANTIBODIES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84884564637     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14647273.2013.807522     Document Type: Article

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