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Rescue of spermatogenesis arrest in azoospermic men after long-term gonadotropin treatment.

Selman H, De Santo M, Sterzik K, Cipollone G, Aragona C, El-Danasouri I

Istituto Europeo Medicina della Riproduzione Abruzzese, Spatocco Hospital, Chieti, Italy. selmanha@yahoo.com

Several studies have shown that FSH treatment can improve sperm production quantitatively and increase the spermatogonial population in oligozoospermic men with normal hormonal profiles. In this study, we describe the results of long-term gonadotropin therapy of normogonadotropic patients with nonobstructive azoospermia.

Published 2 August 2006 in Fertil Steril, 86(2): 466-8.
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