Dear Editor, Prostatic calcification is a common condition observed by the urology community. The earliest description was proposed by Donatus in 1586, followed by Pohl in 1737.1 In clinical practice, an overwhelming...
Guidelines for cross-sex hormone treatment of transsexual people have been developed, but no attention has been paid to the specifics of ethnic groups. South East (SE) Asian male-to-female (MtoF) transsexual peopl...
Digito-rectal examination (DRE) of the prostate provides useful information on the state of prostate growth and on the presence of suspected peripheral nodules. The aim of this study is to describe the clinical and ...
No previous study has evaluated systematically the relationship between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and prostate-related symptoms and signs in young infertile men. We studied 171 (36.5 ±8.3-years-old) males of infe...
The European Journal of Endocrinology recently published a paper (Asscheman et al.) presenting mortality data from more than a thousand transsexuals followed for a median time of 18 years and who had undergone prev...
Aim: To evaluate the Rap1A mRNA expression and its significance in the testes of normal and azoospermic subjects. Methods: A cDNA microarray that contained Rap1A and some other genes such as RBM, EIF1 AY was used to i...
Aim: The data on semen analysis of subjects attending the Fertility Clinic at NIHFW (National Institute of Health and Family Welfare) Munirka, New Delhi for the last 11 years were analyzed to verify the claims and spe...
Aim: To evaluate whether the study of seminal germ cell morphology (SGCM) and semen biochemistry could befruitfully utilized for the diagnosis and management of azoospermic subjects. Methods: In the semen, mature andi...