Sperm Morphology in Fertile Men and Its Age Related Variation
- 24 April 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Andrologia
- Vol. 20 (2) , 121-128
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0272.1988.tb00672.x
Abstract
The different kinds of abnormalities of spermatozoa and their age related variations are studied in a population of 214 fertile men. Coiled tails (7%), bent tails (5,2%), thin heads (2,6%), microcephalic (2,6%), cytoplasmic droplets (2,5%), irregular heads (2%), macrocephalic (0,9%), duplicated heads (0,7%) and duplicated tails (0,5%) are found in this order. Age is positively correlated with the percentage of microcephalic, macrocephalic and duplicate heads and coiled tails and negatively correlated with the percentage of no tail spermatozoa: these age-related variations are involved in the 90th percentile.Keywords
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