Live birth rates after MESA or TESE in men with obstructive azoospermia: Is there a difference?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 761-766

  Van Wely, Madelon ^a   Barbey, Natalie ^b   Meissner, Andreas ^a   Repping, Sjoerd ^a   Silber, Sherman J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; infertility; MESA; obstructive azoospermia; TESE

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; BIRTH RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL BILATERAL ABSENCE OF THE VAS DEFERENS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MICROSURGICAL EPIDIDYMAL SPERM ASPIRATION; OBSTRUCTIVE AZOOSPERMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; VASECTOMY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EPIDIDYMIS; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOON; SURGERY; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS; VASOVASOSTOMY;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; BIRTH RATE; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; VAS DEFERENS; VASOVASOSTOMY;

EID: 84926680062     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dev032     Document Type: Article

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