Causes of azoospermia

ABSTRACT

We studied 50 male infertile patients, who were azoospermic on semen analyses. Most of these cases [60%] had untreatable lesions. Some hope of success is expected in spermatogenic maturational arrest, which constituted 26% of our cases. Duct obstruction which is considered favourable to surgical correction was encountered in only 12% of the patients. The other notable causes were primary testicular failure [18%] and sertoli cell [18%] syndrome