Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 3 , Pages 622-628 , September 2007

Use and outcomes of intracytoplasmic sperm injection for non–male factor infertility

  • Howard H. Kim, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Howard H. Kim, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, GRB 1102, Boston, Massachusetts 02114 (FAX: 617-726-6131).
    • ,
  • M. Kate Bundorf, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Research and Policy
    • ,
  • Barry Behr, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    • ,
  • Stewart W. McCallum, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

Received 10 April 2006 ,Revised 15 December 2006 ,Accepted 15 December 2006.

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 Presented at the Northeastern and New England Sections American Urological Association Joint Meeting, Bermuda, November 2–6, 2005; and at the Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, May 20–25, 2006.

PII: S0015-0282(07)00038-6

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.12.013

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 88, Issue 3 , Pages 622-628 , September 2007

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