Assisted reproductive technologies for male subfertility

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Cissen, Maartje ^a   Bensdorp, Alexandra ^b   Cohlen, Ben J ^c   Repping, Sjoerd ^b   de Bruin, Jan Peter ^a   van Wely, Madelon ^b  

^a JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; COITUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EXPECTANT MANAGEMENT; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MALE SUBFERTILITY; META ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION DETECTION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY RATE; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SELECTION BIAS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUBFERTILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIMED INTERCOURSE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

BIRTH RATE; COITUS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84961922816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000360.pub5     Document Type: Review

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