Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) in extreme cases of male infertility

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Palermo, Gianpiero D ^b   Neri, Queenie V ^a   Schlegel, Peter N ^a   Rosenwaks, Zev ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Urology Weill Cornell Medical College ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROGESTERONE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MATERNAL AGE; NIDATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; GENETICS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROCEDURES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84914682106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113671     Document Type: Article

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