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).
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Comhaire, F., Mahmoud, A., Hargreave, T.B., Haidl, G., Weber, R.F.A., Dohle, G.R. (2010). Fattori maschili dei disturbi della fertilità. In: Schill, WB., Comhaire, F., Hargreave, T.B., Lenzi, A., Isidori, A.M. (eds) Andrologia clinica. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1487-9_9
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