Description of the disease * EnglishPolish Pobierz sekcję do PDF Definition Male infertility due to globozoospermia is a male infertility due to sperm disorder characterized by the presence, in sperm, of a large majority of round-headed spermatozoa that lack the acrosome and have an aberrant nuclear membrane and midpiece defects. The acrosomeless spermatozoa is not able to penetrate the zona pellucida and thus fertilization failures, even with intracytoplasmic sperm injection, are frequent. Disease data Classification Clinical subtype Synonyms Male infertility due to round-headed spermatozoa Niepłodność męska z powodu spermatozoa z okrągłą główką Round-headed sperm syndrome ORPHA code 171709 OMIM code 613958 ICD10 code N46 ICD11 code - *Soruce Extended description of the disease Pobierz sekcję do PDF No additional description. Orphanet - interntowa baza danych dotyczących rzadkich chorób i sierochych leków. ©INSERM 1999 - Dostępna na stronie www.orphanet.pl