Role of Sperm Morphology in Deciding Between Various Assisted Reproduction Technologies

European Urology Focus

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 311-313

  Kohn, Taylor P ^a   Kohn, Jaden R ^a   Lamb, Dolores J ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Infertility; Insemination, Artificial, Homologous; Male; Semen analysis; Sperm morphology; Teratozoospermia

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE INFERTILITY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREGNANCY RATE; REVIEW; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM; SPERM QUALITY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; ABNORMALITIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOA; TERATOZOOSPERMIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85051714116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24054569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euf.2018.07.029     Document Type: Review

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