Role of cytocentrifugation combined with nuclear fast picroindigocarmine staining in detecting cryptozoospermia in men diagnosed with azoospermia

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2022

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Seoul: Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and Andrology

Abstract

Azoospermia is defined as the absence of spermatozoa in the pellet of a centrifuged semen sample. In fact, when a basic semen analysis fails to detect sperm in the ejaculate, there is still the possibility of detecting rare sperm after centrifugation of the sample and examination of the pellet. In this study, we assessed the role of Cytospin centrifugation in combination with the nuclear fast picroindigocarmine (NF-PIC) staining in identifying sperm in azoospermic samples. Semen samples of 251 men diagnosed as having azoospermia after standard examination were further analyzed by Cytospin centrifugation in combination with NF-PIC staining.

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Azoospermia, Centrifugation, Male infertility, Semen, Staining and labeling

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Sharma, R. K. et al. (2022). Role of cytocentrifugation combined with nuclear fast picroindigocarmine staining in detecting cryptozoospermia in men diagnosed with azoospermia. The world journal of men's health. 10.5534/wjmh.210210