Testicular atrophy is a rare but distressing complication of inguinal hernia repair. Apart from the postsurgical etiology, ischemic orchitis and subsequent testicular atrophy may occur secondary to compression of the testicular vessels by chronically incarcerated hernias. We present a rare case of testicular atrophy secondary to a large long standing incarcerated inguinal hernia of 2-decade dur...

BACKGROUND Insulin-like Growth Factor-I (IGF-I) supplementation restores testicular atrophy associated with advanced liver cirrhosis that is a condition of IGF-I deficiency. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of IGF-I in rats with ischemia-induced testicular atrophy (AT) without liver disease and consequently with normal serum level of IGF-I. METHODS Testicular atrophy was induce...

  This cross-sectional study planned to Investigate the prevalence of varicocele among students aged 14 to 17 years in Kerman. Six hundred students were chosen by multi-stage sampling and they were examined for presence of varicocele. The highest rate of prevalence was seen among 17 year old (13.33℅) and the lowest (6.67℅) in 14 year old students. 2.16℅ of the cases suffered from varicocele gr...

A rare case of a seminoma developing in an atrophic testis is described and the role of testicular atrophy in tumorigenesis is discussed.

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com reduced [3]. The reduction in fertility is documented in patients following orchidectomy with a contralateral viable testicle. In this case the contralateral testicle was atrophic following previous misdiagnosed torsion. Patients with severe testicular atrophy have undergone successful microdissection of sperm, in one study up to 56% of patients wit...