Table 3 Literature overview.

From: Zinner syndrome and infertility─a literature review based on a clinical case

Author

Study design

No. of patients

Semen analysis preoperative

Semen analysis postoperative

Treatment

Pereira et al. [4]

Case report

1

OAT

nm

Conservative

Cito et al. [10]

Case report

1

Azoospermia

Azoospermia

RALV

Florim et al. [3]

Case report

1

Normozoospermia

Normal

Conservative

Aghaways and Ahmed [9]

Case report

1

Azoospermia

Normozoospermia

TURED

Pace et al. [18]

Retrospective Study

7

OAT

Improvement but still OAT

TURED

Van den Ouden et al. [2]

Pooled analysis

3

1) OAT

2) Oligozoospermia

3) Azoospermia

nm

nm