PRIMARY TESTICULAR DISEASE PRESENTING AS AZOOSPERMIA OR OLIGOZOOSPERMIA IN AN INFERTILITY CLINIC

A group of 173 patients who made up 23% of a population of patients at tending a male infertility clinic with primary testicular disease were examined; 63 patients (36%) were azoospermic and 110 (64%) were oligo zoospermic. Their aetiology and clinical features are described, toget her with the endocrine findings, white blood cell karyotypes and, wher e available, the histology seen on a testicular biopsy. The relationsh ip of these lesions with the presence or absence of a varicocele is di scussed.