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To the Editor: Intracytoplasmic injection of sperm is the recommended treatment for male infertility, associated with an average pregnancy rate per cycle of about 30 percent.¹ Although sperm count and motility were found to have no effect on the outcome of intracytoplasmic sperm injection,² scanning and transmission electron microscopy indicated that the achievement of pregnancy may depend on normal morphology of the sperm nucleus.³

We therefore introduced the motile-sperm organelle-morphology examination (MSOME), by which the fine nuclear morphology of motile spermatozoa is examined in real time with an inverted light microscope equipped with high-power differential interference contrast (Nomarski/DIC) optics (magnification, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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