Male infertility workup needs additional testing of expressed prostatic secretion and/or post-massage urine

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Punab, Margus ^a   Kullisaar, Tiiu ^b   Mändar, Reet ^b  

^a TARTU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 ISOPROSTANE; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED PROSTATIC SECRETION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT INFLAMMATION; MALE INFERTILITY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OLIGOSPERMIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POST MASSAGE URINE; PROSTATE SECRETION; PROSTATITIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROSTATE; SEMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891948500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082776     Document Type: Article

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