Specimen:
Collect
- Semen in Sterile Specimen Container
Submit
- Semen in Sterile Specimen Container. Submit Ambient.
Special Handling
- Time Sensitive
- Abstain from sexual intercourse or masturbation for 48 hours, but no longer than 7 days prior to collection.
Collect the specimen by masturbation and ejaculate into a clean plastic container provided by the laboratory.
If masturbation is not possible, please consult your doctor.
Rejection Criteria
- Must be delivered to laboratory within 1 hour of collection.
DO NOT USE A CONDOM.
Stability
Ambient: 1 Hour(s); Refrigerated: Unacceptable; Frozen: Unacceptable; Incubated: Unacceptable
Methodology
- Microscopy
Performed
Mon-Fri
Reported
1-3 Day(s)
This test not performed at all locations contact Client Services at 800-700-6891 for possible locations.
This test not performed at all locations contact Client Services at 800-700-6891 for possible locations.
CPT Codes
- 83986
- 85810
- 89320
Interpretive Data
Please see report for interpretive data.
SEMEN ANALYSIS COMMENTS:
CATEGORIES OF SPERM MOVEMENT:
Progressive motility (PM)-Spermatozoa moving actively, either linearly or in a large circle, regardless of speed.
Non-progressive motility (NM)- all other patterns of motility with an absence of progression, ex.(Moving in small circles, the flagellar force hardly displacing the head, or when only a flagellar beat can be observed).
ROUND CELLS: Round cells are collectively epithelial cells, prostate cells, spermatogenic cells and leukocytes.
Interpath Laboratory uses strict criteria to evaluate and report sperm morphology. The reference ranges on this report correspond to the lower reference limit values provided by the World Health Organization's Laboratory Manual for Examination and Processing of Human Semen, 5th Edition, 2010.
SEMEN ANALYSIS COMMENTS:
CATEGORIES OF SPERM MOVEMENT:
Progressive motility (PM)-Spermatozoa moving actively, either linearly or in a large circle, regardless of speed.
Non-progressive motility (NM)- all other patterns of motility with an absence of progression, ex.(Moving in small circles, the flagellar force hardly displacing the head, or when only a flagellar beat can be observed).
ROUND CELLS: Round cells are collectively epithelial cells, prostate cells, spermatogenic cells and leukocytes.
Interpath Laboratory uses strict criteria to evaluate and report sperm morphology. The reference ranges on this report correspond to the lower reference limit values provided by the World Health Organization's Laboratory Manual for Examination and Processing of Human Semen, 5th Edition, 2010.
Components
- 3671 - COLLECTION TIME
- 3672 - SAMPLE DELIVERY TIME
- 3673 - ANALYSIS START TIME
- 3676 - ABSTINENCE TIME DAYS
- 3678 - COMPLETE SAMPLE
- 3679 - APPEARANCE
- 3665 - VISCOSITY
- 3681 - LIQUEFACTION
- 3675 - PH
- 3670 - VOLUME
- 3652 - VIABILITY
- 3656 - PM
- 3682 - NON-PROGRESSIVE MOTILITY
- 3683 - IMMOTILE IM
- 3655 - TOTAL MOTILITY
- 3686 - NON-SPECIFIC AGGREGATION
- 3687 - AGGLUTINATION
- 3650 - SPERM COUNT, QUANT
- 3688 - TOTAL SPERM COUNT/EJACULATION
- 3653 - ROUND CELLS
- 3680 - MORPHOLOGY
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