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In 1967 an article in Nature stated that in the rabbit there are virtually no fertile sperm in the caput or proximal corpus epididymis, and that fertilizing ability is acquired when the sperm pass through the distal regions of the corpus epididymis. Most human males with congenital absence of the vas have no or only a rudimentary corpus epididymis. All that are present are the caput, the proximal corpus epididymis, and, in many, a little proximal epididymis. It seemed unlikely that these patients would ever be fertile.
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Silber, S. (1993). Epididymal Sperm in Obstructive Azoospermia for In Vitro Fertilization. In: Seibel, M.M., Bernstein, J. (eds) Technology and Infertility. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9205-7_8
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