Total motile sperm count: A better way to rate the severity of male factor infertility?

Jornal Brasileiro de Reproducao Assistida

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 47-48

  Borges, Edson ^a,b  

^a Fertility Centro de Fertilizacao Assistida   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Sapientiae   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPERMIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPERM COUNT; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 84969135485     PISSN: 15175693     EISSN: 15180557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5935/1518-0557.20160012     Document Type: Editorial

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