Gonadotrophins for idiopathic male factor subfertility

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Attia, Abdelhamid M ^a   Abou Setta, Ahmed M ^b   Al Inany, Hesham G ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; PLACEBO; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN;

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BREAST TENDERNESS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GYNECOMASTIA; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IDIOPATHIC MALE SUBFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUBFERTILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREND STUDY; BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; MALE INFERTILITY;

BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84893412902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005071.pub4     Document Type: Review

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