The conventional management of male infertility

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 123, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2013, Pages

  Nieschlag, Eberhard ^a,c   Lenzi, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Clinical treatments; Maldescended testes; Male infertility; Semen analysis Sexually transmitted diseases

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; IMIPRAMINE; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGE; ANAMNESIS; ANORCHIA; AZOOSPERMIA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYPTORCHISM; CYTOGENETICS; DELAYED PUBERTY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EMPIRICISM; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOSPADIAS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; KALLMANN SYNDROME; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; REPRODUCTION; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL ONLY SYNDROME; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS TORSION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VARICOCELE;

CLINICAL TREATMENTS; MALDESCENDED TESTES; MALE INFERTILITY; SEMEN ANALYSIS, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 84888636703     PISSN: 00207292     EISSN: 18793479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2013.09.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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