Abstract:As alternatives to vasectomy, several attempts have been made in the past to develop reversible vas-occlusion methods (Roy and Taneja -1974). The pioneering studies of Kar and Kamboj (1 964, 1965) in rat and subsequent investigations of Lee (1 970), and Kothari and Pardanani (1973) in man demonstrated that a foreign body introduced in-
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