title: [Analysis of sperm morphology: yes or no?].
abstract: The analysis of sperm morphology can be used to evaluate sperm fertilizing ability and spontaneous conception status, and especially the overall analysis of the sperm head, neck and tail, along with the patient's living habits, occupation and clinical manifestations, may contribute to the primary diagnosis of the patients potentia generandi. It can also be employed to assess the effects of the treatment of semen samples. Although oocyte fertilization can be achieved by the technologies of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), motile sperm organelle morphology examination (MSOME) and intracytoplasmic morphologically selected sperm injection (IMSI) regardless of sperm morphology and / or motility, which may somewhat weaken the clinical application of sperm morphology analysis, the standardized procedure and the practice of quality control for the analysis of sperm morphology can significantly improve the accuracy of its results and largely promote its clinical application. Therefore, it is of positive necessity as well as clinical application value to perform sperm morphology analysis in andrology laboratories, reproductive centers, sperm banks and the department of laboratory medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Science, Nanjing Hospital, Jiangsu Corps of the Armed Police Force, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210028, China. lujc@androl.cn
authors.forename: Jin-Chun
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055101:Semen Analysis; D020554:Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic / Q000379:methods; D013081:Sperm Motility