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Microsurgical epididymovasostomy by tubule intussusception: a new technique in rat model
K B Stefanovic1, S A Clark, H J Buncke
1Microsurgical Replantation Transplantation Department, Davies Medical Center, San Francisco, California.
Fertility and Sterility
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
This experimental study on 15 adult male rats with bilateral epididymovasostomies evaluates a new technique of tubule intussusception as an improved form of end-to-end anastomosis. This paper describes in detail the steps in this technique and offers physiological, anatomical, and histological follow-up after 3 months. With this technique there is a 97% patency rate and a 23.3% incidence of macroscopic spermatic granuloma. Complications are discussed in detail.