Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 3 , Pages 484-485 , September 2008

Evaluation of sperm damage: beyond the World Health Organization criteria

  • Nabil Aziz, M.R.C.O.G., M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gynecology, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Nabil Aziz, M.R.C.O.G., M.D., Liverpool Women's Hospital, Department of Gynecology, Liverpool University, Crown Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L8 7SS, United Kingdom (FAX: 44-151-7024137).
    • ,
  • Ashok Agarwal, Ph.D., H.C.L.D.

      Affiliations

    • Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Received 26 March 2007 ,Revised 2 July 2007 ,Accepted 2 July 2007.

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PII: S0015-0282(07)01518-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.1287

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 3 , Pages 484-485 , September 2008

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