Some frequently encountered clinical adult male testes smaller than normal, so worried, it might affect fertility. In fact, the small testes are also Yousheng rational and pathological differences. Physiology of testes is small, as long as is the ability to produce sufficient quantities of normal sperm, normally does not affect fertility.

Smaller testes caused by pathological many reasons, the most common chronic wasting disease, endocrine disorders (thyroid, pituitary hypofunction), sustained high fever, taking a large number of female hormones, and viral orchitis (such as mumps orchitis complicated by ), testicular syphilis. These symptoms can cause testicular atrophy, resulting in smaller than normal.

Pathological testicular atrophy smaller, usually in the seminiferous tubules spermatogonia or spermatocytes easily involved, when these cells shrink. The sperm can not grow, or damage can not produce normal sperm, in addition to the performance of smaller size for the outside of testicular atrophy is often associated with infertility; However, because of their secretion of male hormone involving fewer stromal cells. It is generally not affect the male reproductive organs and male deputy features development (such as beard growth, pitch change is low, prominent Adam's apple, muscular, etc.) However, the actual situation in the clinical point of view, severe testicular atrophy and even infertility are not more common occurrence. Testicular atrophy is associated with reproductive dysfunction, can be microscopic examination of semen. If each milliliter of semen, the sperm count of less than 2? 6 of 10 million, and activities decreased function, form is not normal, it should be considered is infertility.

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