Reductions in testicular mass, sperm motility, and mating frequency have been attributed to the stresses caused by confinement of Sprague-Dawley male rats in nose-only inhalation exposure tubes. Testicular changes, including an increase in testicular atrophy, have been detected at an increased incidence in male rats used in inhalation studies as compared with rats of the same age and strain use...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence, clinical characteristics, management methods and prognosis of testicular cancer at Kenyatta National Hospital. DESIGN Retrospective case study of testicular cancer patients over a fifteen year period. SETTING Kenyatta National Hospital, a referral and teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS All histologically confirmed testicular cancer patients recorded at ...

Abstract Aim Assess the proportion of patients undergoing: (1) Preoperative assessment testicle, including serum tumour markers (STM) and testicular ultrasound (US), (2) Orchidectomy within 3 weeks US diagnosis, (3) Radiological staging (CT) surgery. Method Patients who had a radical inguinal orchidectomy for probable malignancy were identified, between January October 2021, via electronic thea...

background: many azoospermic patients with non obstructive azoospermia (noa) are candidate for testicular sperm extraction (tese) and in vitro fertilization. because sperm might be present in some but not all parts of the testes of such men, multiple sampling of testicular tissue are usually necessary to increase the probability of sperm finding. sperm finding can be done by two methods: 1) cla...

A case of malignant lymphoma of the testis is presented. A 49-year-old male presented with swelling and dull pain of his left scrotal content. The initial clinical diagnosis was left testicular tumor. Left high orchiectomy was performed immediately after admission and histopathology showed malignant lymphoma, large cell type, B-cell type according to the Lymphoma Study Group (LSG) classificatio...

Swyer syndrome is a type of pure gonadal dysgenesis correlating with 46 XY karyotype, primary amenorrhea, and female internal and external genitalia. It reveals a testicular differentiation abnormality.A 16-year old girl admitted to our center with primary amenorrhea and abdominal mass. In spite of the absence of normal testis, clitoromegaly was noticed. Peripheral blood karyotype analysis show...