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. 2002 Mar;19(3):149–151. doi: 10.1023/A:1014792922874

Birth of a Healthy Male After Frozen Thawed Blastocyst Transfer Following Intracytoplasmic Injection of Frozen Thawed Testicular Spermatozoa from a Man with Nonmosaic Klinefelter's Syndrome

Björn Rosenlund 1,✉, Julius Gisli Hreinsson 1, Outi Hovatta 1
PMCID: PMC3468253  PMID: 12005311

Abstract

We here report on a birth of a male, with normal karyotype, after frozen thawed blastocyst transfer following intracytoplasmic injection of frozen thawed testicular spermatozoa from an azoospermic 27-year-old man with nonmosaic Klinerfelter's syndrome. Testicular sperm were retrieved by percutaneous needle biopsy.

Keywords: Blastocyst, cryopreservation, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, Klinefelter's syndrome, testicular spermatozoa

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