Pregnancies achieved with testicular and ejaculated spermatozoa in combination with intracytoplasmic sperm injection in men with totally or initially immotile spermatozoa in the ejaculate

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1343-1346

  Kahraman, Semra ^a,c   Tasdemir, Murat ^a   Tasdemir, Işlk ^a   Vicdan, Kubilay ^a   Özgür, Suat ^a   Polat, Gurur ^a   Işlk, Ahmet Z ^a   Biberoǧlu, Kutay ^a   Vanderzwalmen, Pierre ^b   Nijs, Martine ^b   Schoysman, Robert ^b  

^a Sevgi Hospital   (Turkey)

^b SIMAF Van Helmont Hospital   (Belgium)

^c IVF Unit   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ejaculated immotile spermatozoa; ICSI; Pregnancy; Testicular spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPERMIA; BIRTH RATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROINJECTION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TESTIS BIOPSY;

EID: 8944262195     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019384     Document Type: Article

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