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01 · ABSTRACT

Abstract

The combination of testicular biopsy and intracytoplasmic sperm injection procedures has assisted potentially azoospermic men with Klinefelters’ syndrome to have children.  Approximately two-thirds of the time, a testicular sperm extraction procedure performed on a nonmosaic Klinefelter 47,XXY patient fails to isolate sperm. In the case report described herein, both wet preparation and histological examinations confirmed typical cellular morphologies associated with Klinefelter testicular tissue, including no spermatozoa.  It did however, observe the unusual presence of oocyte-like cells representing a unique, theoretical in vivo transformation of pluripotent stem cells, probably spermatogonial, into primordial germ cells and gametes of the opposite sex, as previously documented only in the experimental mouse model.

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02 · PUBLICATION RECORD

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JournalMedical Research Archives
IssueVol 6 No 2 (2018): Vol.6 Issue 2 February 2018
SectionResearch Articles
Published15 February 2018
DOI10.18103/mra.v6i2.1704
ISSN2375-1924
03 · RIGHTS & REUSE

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Authors & affiliations

SZ

Shane Zozula

Ovation Fertility, 361 Hospital Road, Suite 433, Newport Beach, CA, 92663 USA

NN

Nancy Nugent

Ovation Fertility, 361 Hospital Road, Suite 433, Newport Beach, CA, 92663 USA

RA

Robert E. Anderson

Southern California Center for Reproductive Medicine, Newport Beach, CA, 92663 USA

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