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HISTOLOGICAL CHANGES IN TESTICULAR BIOPSIES FROM CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS WITH AND WITHOUT LIVER DISEASE
Author(s) -
BOIESEN P.T.,
LINDHOLM J.,
HAGEN C.,
BAHNSEN M.,
FABRICIUSBJERRE N.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section a pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-4184
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1979.tb00034.x
Subject(s) - spermatogenesis , medicine , alcohol consumption , chronic liver disease , liver disease , chronic alcoholic , gastroenterology , biopsy , liver biopsy , disease , pathology , physiology , alcohol , biology , cirrhosis , biochemistry
Testicular and liver biopsies were obtained from thirthy consecutive patients at the age of 30 to 64 years with chronic alcoholism (daily consumption of 72 g of alcohol or more for at least five years). The spermatogenesis was normal in 12 patients (40 per cent), moderately reduced in 15 patients (50 per cent) and severely reduced in 3 patients (10 per cent). No relation between the presence of liver disease as assessed by histological examination of the liver biopsy and the impairment in the spermatogenesis could be demonstrated.