Table 2.

Laboratory and clinical outcomes of the three groups.

	TESA group	mTESE group	MESA group	P
No. of oocytes retrieved	10.67 ± 5.75	10.09 ± 5.94	11.72 ± 6.25	0.06
Rate of sperm retrieved (%)	92.16 (282/306)	51.14 (90/176)	88.79 (198/223)
No. of 2PNs per cycle	9.79 ± 5.07	9.29 ± 5.51	11.00 ± 5.83	0.02
No. of cleavage per cycle	8.56 ± 4.64	8.03 ± 5.10	9.57 ± 5.38	0.04
No. of good quality D3 embryos	6.40 ± 3.43	3.00 ± 2.76	5.97 ± 3.40	<0.01
No. of good quality D5 embryos	2.50 ± 2.25	1.10 ± 1.27	2.61 ± 2.44	<0.01
Rate of fertilized eggs (%)	92.51 ± 12.40	93.32 ± 11.01	94.86 ± 12.82	0.14
Rate of cleavage (%)	87.12 ± 14.30	85.21 ± 18.45	86.06 ± 8.90	0.44
Rate of good quality D3 embryos (%)	77.69 ± 17.55	38.98 ± 28.96	66.02 ± 19.21	<0.01
Rate of good quality D5 embryos (%)	27.36 ± 20.72	12.08 ± 14.21	25.30 ± 20.55	<0.01
Clinical pregnancy rate (%)	50.71 (143/282)	32.22 (29/90)	51.52 (102/198)