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Trophic effects on testes in paraplegics
P A Chapelle1, A Roby-Brami, M Jondet
1Service de Rééducation Neurologique, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France.
Paraplegia
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
Testicular biopsies and hormone profiles were obtained from 23 paraplegic patients who had sustained a complete spinal cord section. The hormone profiles were normal, but patients with a spinal lesion including the T10-L2 metameres showed a particular pattern of germinal cell abnormalities. The atrophy is multifactorial, but may well include destruction of the sympathetic innervation of the testis by the lesion.
