Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 3 , Pages 584-591 , September 2008

The impact of spermatozoa preincubation time and spontaneous acrosome reaction in intracytoplasmic sperm injection: a controlled randomized study

Received 8 January 2006 ,Revised 30 November 2006 ,Accepted 30 November 2006.

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