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Semen Analysis

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Infertility

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Perhaps no other aspect of infertility is more controversial than the evaluation of the male factor and, in particular, the evaluation of semen quality. Not only is this evaluation difficult, but somehow an adequate investigation of the male role in the infertile couple is often neglected. Such negligence is surprising, especially when one considers that, in approximately 40% of the infertile couples, relative deficiencies in the male partner play at least a partial role and in 20% of the couples, a fairly absolute role in infertility.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Melvin L. Taymor M.D. (Professor of Life Sciences and Technology and Clinical Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology)

  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Melvin L. Taymor M.D. (Professor of Life Sciences and Technology and Clinical Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology)

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Taymor, M.L. (1990). Semen Analysis. In: Infertility. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0627-6_12

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