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. 2010 Nov 2:29–84. [Article in Italian] doi: 10.1007/978-88-470-1487-9_9

Fattori maschili dei disturbi della fertilità

Frank Comhaire 6, Ahmed Mahmoud 6, Timothy B Hargreave 7, Gerhard Haidl 8, R F A Weber 9, Gert R Dohle 10
Editors: Wolf-Bernhard Schill1, Frank Comhaire2, Timothy B Hargreave3, Andrea Lenzi4, Andrea M Isidori5
PMCID: PMC7122667

Riassunto

In passato sono state tenute conferenze e workshop per stilare delle linee guida sui diversi aspetti dell’andrologia. Questi hanno affrontato, tra l’altro, le seguenti tematiche: l’utilità delle tecniche diagnostiche avanzate di analisi del liquido seminale (ESHRE 1996; Comhaire 1997; Fraser et al. 1997), la gestione dei tumori a cellule germinali testicolari (Krege et al. 2001), la contraccezione delle coppie (Neal e Groat 1976), il ruolo di consulto attento alle coppie infertili (Monach 2003), l’inversione della vasectomia (Chawla et al. 2004) e un’assistenza adeguata (Hull 1996). Allo scopo di limitare la confusione sulla terminologia utilizzata nel campo dell’infertilità (Easton 1998), la WHO ha introdotto alcune definizioni (Rowe et al. 1993).

Contributor Information

Frank Comhaire, Email: Frank.Comhaire@Ugent.be.

Ahmed Mahmoud, Email: ahmed.mahmoud@ugent.be.

Timothy B. Hargreave, Email: tbhargreave@btinternet.com

Gerhard Haidl, Email: gerhard.haidl@ukb.uni-bonn.de.

R. F. A. Weber, Email: r.f.a.weber@erasmusmc.nl

Gert R. Dohle, Email: G.R.Dohle@erasmusmc.nl

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