TESTICULAR VOLUME AND FUNCTION IN ADOLESCENCE AFTER BREECH DELIVERY

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 34  (5) , 437-442
Abstract
Testicular volume and pubertal development were investigated in 108 boys born by breech delivery aged 14.5-19.5 yr. Mean testicular volume was slightly but not significantly lower than in a control group of the same age. Pubertal development was normal. One boy had unilateral and 2 boys bilateral testicular atrophy (1 with azoospermia and 1 with oligospermia). In a control group of 135 boys delivered from vertex position there were 3 cases with unilateral and none with bilateral testicular atrophy. In both groups all cases with unilateral testicular atrophy could be explained by postnatal testicular injury; the 2 cases of bilateral atrophy in the group of breech-delivered boys remained unexplained. They may have originated from local trauma during breech delivery. Testicular atrophy as a complication of breech delivery has a frequency of 2% or less.

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