Fertility and Sterility
Volume 82, Issue 1 , Pages 237-238 , July 2004

Serum testosterone levels in patients with nonmosaic Klinefelter syndrome after testicular sperm extraction for intracytoplasmic sperm injection

  • Hiroshi Okada, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Urology, Department of Organ Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
    • Department of Urology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Hiroshi Okada, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Urology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1, Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan , Tel: +81 78 382 6155(FAX: +81-3-3964-8934).
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  • Toshiro Shirakawa, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Urology, Department of Organ Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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  • Tomomoto Ishikawa, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Urology, Department of Organ Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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  • Kazumasa Goda, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Urology, Department of Organ Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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  • Masato Fujisawa, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Kawasaki Medical University, Kurashiki, Japan
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  • Sadao Kamidono, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Urology, Department of Organ Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Received 19 June 2003 ,Revised 25 November 2003 ,Accepted 25 November 2003.

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  3. Okada H, Fujioka H, Tatsumi N, Kanzaki M, Okuda Y, Fujisawa M, et al.  Klinefelter's syndrome in the male infertility clinic. Hum Reprod. 1999;14:946–952

PII: S0015-0282(04)00548-5

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.11.047

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 82, Issue 1 , Pages 237-238 , July 2004