Clinical management of infertile men with nonobstructive azoospermia

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 459-470

  Esteves, Sandro C ^a  

^a Androfert   (Brazil)

Author keywords

intracytoplasmic sperm injection; male infertility; nonobstructive azoospermia; pregnancy outcome; sperm retrieval; spermatogenic failure

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; GONADOTROPIN;

AZOOSPERMIA; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GAMETE; GENETIC SCREENING; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MICRODISSECTION TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS; TESTIS BIOPSY; VARICOCELECTOMY; Y CHROMOSOME; ALGORITHM; BIOPSY; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION;

ALGORITHMS; AZOOSPERMIA; BIOPSY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL; TESTIS;

EID: 84928983178     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1008-682X.148719     Document Type: Review

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