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Clinical Corner: Communication

The Effects of Severity of Oligozoospermia on Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) Cycle Outcome

Hiromi Hashimoto Hanabusa Women's Clinic and Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Tomomoto Ishikawa Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Sakae Goto Hanabusa Women's Clinic, Kobe, Japan
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Shoji Kokeguchi Hanabusa Women's Clinic, Kobe, Japan
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Masato Fujisawa Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Masahide Shiotani Hanabusa Women's Clinic, Kobe, Japan
Pages 91-95 | Received 13 Aug 2009, Accepted 06 Oct 2009, Published online: 19 Feb 2010

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