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Successful Treatment of Postchemotherapy Azoospermia With Microsurgical Testicular Sperm Extraction: The Weill Cornell Experience
Microdissection Testicular Sperm Extraction Successful in Postchemotherapy Azoospermia
W Hsiao, PJ Stahl, EC Osterberg, E Nejat, GD Palermo, Z Rosenwaks, PN Schlegel
20110214
2011 Mar 14
J Clin Oncol
Successful Treatment of Postchemotherapy Azoospermia With Microsurgical Testicular Sperm Extraction: The Weill Cornell Experience
J Clin Oncol. 2011 Mar 14;[Epub Ahead of Print], W Hsiao, PJ Stahl, EC Osterberg, E Nejat, GD Palermo, Z Rosenwaks, PN Schlegel
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OncologySTAT Editorial Team
Up to two-thirds of young men with cancer are azoospermic after chemotherapy. When patients have not banked sperm before chemotherapy, microsurgical testicular sperm extraction (TESE) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) may allow such patients to father a child. In what is thought to be the largest series to date of postchemotherapy TESE-ICSI, Hsiao et al of the Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, reviewed records for 73 patients with persistent postchemotherapy azoospermia who underwent...
