INTRODUCTION Failure to perform surgical repair of varicocele before puberty is among the common causes of male infertility. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the testicular volume and fertility potential in men after laparoscopic varicocelectomy conducted in adolescence due to varicocele and concomitant testicular hypotrophy. MATERIAL AND METHODS From 1996 through 2011, eighty-two ad...

BACKGROUND Zinc (Zn) as an important trace element is essential for testicular development and spermatogenesis. Molecular mechanism of Zn action in the reproductive system may be related to metal binding low-molecular weight proteins, metallothioneins (MT). Our objective was to determine the effect of Zn on two important isoforms of MT, MT1M and MT1G genes expression on testicular sertoli cells...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the ipsilateral catch-up growth rates compared to contralateral testicular growth in adolescents with varicocele undergoing microsurgical inguinal varicocelectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between December 2005 and May 2007, 39 adolescent patients with grade 2-3 varicocele admitted to our clinic with complaints of pain and/or testicular asymmetry were operated. Preoperative...

At the onset of puberty, seminiferous tubules rapidly increase in diameter, thereby occupying a greater proportion of the testis, resulting in a rapid increase in testicular size. The objective of the current studies was to evaluate ultrasonography for assessing testicular diameter, as a basis for ranking boars relative to their extent of pubertal development. In the initial study, prior to cas...

BACKGROUND In patients with hereditary or constitutional chromosomal anomalies, testicular carcinoma can develop sporadically or on the basis of an underlying hereditary genetic defect. Greater knowledge of these genetic defects would provide more insight into the molecular pathways that lead to testicular carcinoma. To the authors' knowledge, little attention has been paid to date to the comor...

The objectives of this study were to investigate patients treated for scrotal trauma at our institute for the last three decades to describe our experience with an emphasis on the etiologies and ultrasonographic findings in these patients. We reviewed medical records of patients who underwent scrotal ultrasonography for evaluation of testicular trauma at our institutes from 1986 to 2015. Trends...

OBJECTIVE After review of the pediatric literature, we report on the prevalence of testicular microlithiasis and its relation with benign and malign entities. We provide a guideline for the management of boys with testicular microlithiasis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The databases searched were Medline, Web of Science, Embase and the Cochrane Library. Data on the rates of testicular microlithiasis...

Address for Correspondence: Dr Prathap Kumar J, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, M S Ramaiah Medical College, M S R Nagar, MSRIT post, Mathikere, Bangalore-560054, Karnataka, India. E-Mail: [email protected] Background: The testicular artery is normally a branch of the abdominal aorta and arises about 1-2inches below the origin of renal artery. In the present study, variation...

Lymphatic drainage of the testes is known to follow a predictable pathway that usually involves the retroperitoneal, paraaortic, paracaval and interaortocaval nodal chains. Herein we report the case of a 41 years old man with a stage I testicular seminoma, with an unexpected inguinal lymph node metastasis. During his routine follow-up visit, 6 months after radical orchiectomy, a spherical mass ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effectiveness of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) using testicular sperm as a strategy to overcome infertility in men with high sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF). DESIGN Prospective, observational, cohort study. SETTING Private IVF centers. PATIENT(S) A total of 147 couples undergoing IVF-ICSI and day 3 fresh ETs whose male partner has oligozoospermia and h...