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A Randomized Clinical Trial of the Effect of Intraoperative Saline Perfusion on Postvasectomy Azoospermia

Brian Eisner, Timothy Schuster, Phillip Rodgers, Muzammil Ahmed, Gary Faerber, Gary Smith and Dana Ohl
The Annals of Family Medicine May 2004, 2 (3) 221-223; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.59

The Article in Brief

After a vasectomy, it can take up to 4 months before sperm are absent from the semen. Flushing one end of the vas deferens (the tube that connects the testicles and the prostate gland) with a saline solution does not change the number of sperm present after vasectomy or decrease the time before sperm are absent.

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