Sperm Concentration Is Poorly Associated With Hypoandrogenism in Infertile Men

Urology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1062-1067

  Patel, Darshan P ^a,b   Brant, William O ^a,b   Myers, Jeremy B ^a,b   Zhang, Chong ^b   Presson, Angela P ^b   Johnstone, Erica B ^c   Dorais, Jessie A ^c   Aston, Kenneth I ^a,b,c   Carrell, Douglas T ^a,b,c   Hotaling, James M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOANDROGENISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AZOOSPERMIA; BLOOD; DEFICIENCY; OLIGOSPERMIA; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ADULT; AZOOSPERMIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM COUNT; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84933506295     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2015.01.014     Document Type: Article

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