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Table 4 Histological pattens in 30 azoospermic men with AZF microdeletions from the cohort undergoing testicular needle biopsy

From: Complete or partial loss of the Y chromosome in an unselected cohort of 865 non-vasectomized, azoospermic men

AZF deletion type

Normal spermatogenesis

Hypospermatogenesis

Maturation arrest

Sertoli-cell-only syndrome

AZFabc

-

-

-

3

AZFbc

-

3

-

3

AZFb

-

1

-

-

AZFc

-

a15

1 (late)

4

  1. aFive men showed SCOS in >95% of the testicular tissue evaluated