Isolated tuberculous orchitis is a rare entity. The coexistence of tuberculosis of the testis with filarial worm infestation is even more rare. In this report, we present a case of tuberculous involvement of the testis, associated with filarial worm infestation in the spermatic cord that presented as a testicular tumor. A 55-year-old male presented with unilateral testicular swelling of four mo...

Testicular germ cell tumours (TGCT), including seminomas, embryonal carcinomas, teratomas and yolk sac tumours, have a common precursor, the carcinoma in situ (CIS) cell. Recent gene expression studies displaying close similarity of CIS cells to embryonic stem cells support the longstanding theory that CIS most likely originates in utero from fetal gonocytes. The clinical association between th...

OBJECTIVE To study the presentation, management and outcome of undescended testes in children in a northern Nigerian population. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria. SUBJECTS Thirty six children aged < or = 12 years with 43 undescended testes managed in 10 years. INTERVENTIONS Orchidopexy, orchidectomy, herniotomy. RESULTS The ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the practice of testicular prosthesis insertion (TPI) related to orchidectomy in one geographical region and to identify the difference in the rates of insertion among different age groups. PATIENTS AND METHODS Males who underwent orchidectomy between 1989 and 2009 were identified from data collected from Scottish Morbidity Records. Patients were classified into six age g...

The epididymis is the site for the transport, maturation, and storage of spermatozoa. Regulation of epididymal structure and function is highly dependent on the ipsilateral testis. At the molecular level, however, few studies have been undertaken to determine which genes are expressed in the epididymis under testicular regulation. The goal of this study was to identify genes for which expressio...

Cryptorchidism is one of the most common genital defects in dogs. This study investigated the effects of abdominal cryptorchidism on morphology, cell proliferation, and Sertoli cell condition in a dog with spontaneous unilateral cryptorchidism. Elective orchidectomy was performed on the abdominal right testis and the scrotal left testis. Significant reductions in numbers of spermatogonia, sperm...

The results of treatment for patients with seminoma of the testis by orchidectomy and irradiation are so satisfactory that retroperitoneal lymph node dissection is no longer practised. However, this operation is still used routinely in some centres for patients with testicular teratomas despite the lack of evidence that it gives better results than those obtained with irradiation followed by re...

Spontaneous intratesticular haemorrhage is a rare disease. Four cases have been described, all diagnosed after orchidectomy. We present an additional patient with a spontaneously arisen intratesticular haematoma in whom orchidectomy could be avoided.