It is a great honor to accept the opportunity to serve the American Society of Andrology and the Journal of Andrology as the new Section Editor of the Journal of Andrology Lab Corner. Previous section editors have served the Journal extremely well, and I will strive to do so also. I would first like to thank the Co-Editors-in-Chief, Drs Matthew Hardy and Peter Schlegel, for this privilege. With...

Andrology is a branch of medicine that deals with male genitalia. It is prevailing belief that major issues that andrology deals with are male fertility and erectile dysfunction. Both occur in men or young adults. In this perspective, how does this involve the paediatric (urologist) surgeon? He is indeed very important. In children, surgical diseases involving male genitalia are common. They in...

The introduction of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in 1992 has revolutionized the management of infertile couples.[1] The workup of female partner remains important in the era of ICSI since she has to go through the procedure and pregnancy. Attention has been drawn to assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs) in improving embryo quality and pregnancy outcome. In contrast, the evolution...

citations status of these articles were reported. Third, articles published in the leading general medical journals (The New England Journal of Medicine [NEJM], Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], The Lancet and British Medical Journal [BMJ]) were identified. Articles related to andrology were first screened by two reviewers (WZ and TYW) independently and subsequently a consensu...