Open Access“Through Thick and Thin:” Morphological spectrum of epididymal tubules in obstructive azoospermia
Author(s) -
Aditya Sharma,
JosephL Mathew,
Japleen Kaur,
Sudheer Kumar Devana
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of human reproductive sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-1208
pISSN - 1998-4766
DOI - 10.4103/jhrs.jhrs_22_20
Subject(s) - obstructive azoospermia , etiology , broad spectrum , medicine , azoospermia , biology , pathology , chemistry , infertility , pregnancy , genetics , combinatorial chemistry
Morphological appearance of the epididymal tubules encountered at the time of microsurgical vasoepididymal anastomosis (VEA) is quite variable. They are the indicators of underlying etiology as well as guide further course of management. We present three cases of obstructive azoospermia with three different morphologies encountered during the microsurgical VEA. As the etiologies encountered in our setup are different from that of the western world, this report highlights the morphological variation of tubules encountered in our subpopulation. This also helps us in deciding the customization of microsurgical VEA accordingly.