Acephalic spermatozoa and abnormal development of the head-neck attachment: a human syndrome of genetic origin.

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A series of 10 young sterile men with acephalic spermatozoa or abnormal head-mid-piece attachments is presented. Nine of these patients had 75-100% spermatozoa with minute cephalic ends and 0-25% abnormal head-middle piece attachments. Loose heads ranged between 0-35 for each 100 spermatozoa and normal forms were rare. Two patients were brothers. On ultrastructural examination, the head was generally absent and...

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