Use of testicular sperm for ICSI in oligozoospermic couples: How far should we go?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 7-13

  Zini, Armand ^a   Bach, Phil V ^b   Al Malki, Ahmad H ^a   Schlegel, Peter N ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

ICSI; male infertility; sperm DNA; sperm retrieval; testicular sperm

Indexed keywords

DNA;

CLINICAL OUTCOME; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MALE INFERTILITY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY RATE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPERM; SPERM RETRIEVAL; BIRTH RATE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIRTH RATE; DNA DAMAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; OLIGOSPERMIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM RETRIEVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85017603886     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dew276     Document Type: Review

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