(1) Most importantly, the hypersecretion of FSH observed during the first 2 days after immunoneutralization of circulating inhibin was indistinguishable from that elicited during the initial 2 days after subsequent bilateral orchidectomy and concomitant testosterone (T) replacement.
(2) At 48 h after bilateral orchidectomy, a significant decrease in putrescine content was observed, but spermidine and spermine content were unaffected.
(3) The purpose of the present study was to identify the existence of sexual dimorphism in the dendritic field of accessory olfactory bulb mitral cells in rats and to investigate the effects of male orchidectomy and female androgenization on the day of birth upon this dendritic field.
(4) Orchidectomy as well as single drug intramuscular or oral + intramuscular estrogens exerted a similar suppressive effect on basal levels of A-4 and 17-OHP.
(5) Orchidectomy caused a small, but consistent rise in response.
(6) Orchidectomy in male rats leads to a) an increase in serum LH and FSH within 9 h; b) a decrease in serum testosterone to baseline levels by 30 min; c) an increase in serum progesterone (for 30 to 120 min), in the presence of the adrenals.
(7) At 6 months, SHBG levels had increased to 617% of pretreatment values in the oral EE2 group, to 166% in the 320 mg group, and were unaffected by orchidectomy.
(8) The BMI and cholesterol values obtained 4 to 6 years after chemotherapy were compared with values from a sample of healthy, age-matched Dutch men; the cholesterol level was also compared with that of 31 patients treated with orchidectomy for stage I disease.
(9) Many animal experiments and several clinical phase II and phase III trials have demonstrated that it deserves a place in the endocrine therapy of advanced prostate cancer, particularly for those patients who find orchidectomy unacceptable and who do not have known cardiovascular risks.
(10) By 2 years post-orchidectomy, seven patients (4.9%) in the irradiated group developed duodenal ulceration compared to none in the surveillance group (p = 0.05).
(11) The effect of unilateral or bilateral orchidectomy on tissue plasminogen activator activity (PAA), plasminogen activator inhibition (PAI) and plasmin inhibition (PI) was studied in the rat.
(12) It can be extremely difficult to distinguish histologically between Leydig cell tumours and adrenocortical rest hyperplasia which may lead in some cases to unnecessary orchidectomy in young men.
(13) It is concluded that intranasal buserelin is an effective, simple and safe method to achieve androgen deprivation and is an alternative to orchidectomy in the treatment of advanced prostatic cancer.
(14) Orchidectomy or testicular irradiation with 24 to 30 Gy are recommended for testicular involvement in boys with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
(15) SHBG serum levels were highly increased by oral estrogens, slightly increased by parenteral estrogens, and unaffected by orchidectomy.
(16) Apart from orchidectomy, surgery was not the first modality of treatment.
(17) The authors made a randomized prospective study of estrogen therapy versus orchidectomy in patients with prostatic cancer (n = 100, Huddinge Hospital, Sweden) to investigate the possibility of predicting cardiovascular events during hormonal treatment.
(18) A very strong gastroprotective effect in basal conditions has been modulated by ovariectomy and demedullation (abolishment), thyroparathyroidectomy (decrease), and no change occurred in case of vagotomy, splenectomy or orchidectomy.
(19) These changes were accentuated after an orchidectomy.
(20) Serum concentrations of testosterone, luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) were determined before and after orchidectomy performed at different intervals (2-29 months) after withdrawal of estrogen therapy in patients with prostatic carcinoma.
Orchiectomy
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(1) However, the presence of these two molecules was restored if testosterone was supplemented immediately after orchiectomy.
(2) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
(3) The lesion presented as a discrete, palpable mass that led to orchiectomy.
(4) Two patients in S group (8.7%) relapsed at 4 and 7 months after orchiectomy with nonbulky retroperitoneal disease (less than 5 cm in diameter), whereas only 1 (3.7%) irradiated patients did so after 4 months.
(5) We report a retrospective review of our experience with close observation after orchiectomy in clinical stage I nonseminomatous germ cell tumors (NSGCT) of the testis during a 10-year period.
(6) We currently recommend radical orchiectomy and extended unilateral retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy.
(7) We report here in the interim analysis of an ongoing randomized clinical trial designed to test whether androgen priming enhances tumor chemosensitivity in men with stage D prostate cancer refractory to orchiectomy.
(8) However, the initial rapid decrease in serum testosterone and the striking positive clinical effect may possibly be utilized combined with orchiectomy or treatment with LHRH agonist analogues.
(9) The Authors describe an orchiectomy in an adult and a simple enucleation of the cyst in a young man; in the end the Authors draw their conclusion.
(10) An 81-year-old man with a painless enlargement of the right testis which developed 11 years ago was treated with right orchiectomy without any combined therapy in 1981.
(11) The patient showed spontaneous regression of pulmonary metastasis and is well 7 years after orchiectomy and irradiation of abdominal lymph nodes.
(12) We believe that "watchful waiting" after high orchiectomy alone is the best modality for all cases of stage 1 yolk sac tumor of the infantile testis.
(13) In patients with clinical stage I disease for whom a wait-and-see policy after orchiectomy is adopted at our institute both methods must be considered mandatory.
(14) Radical inguinal orchiectomy is standard treatment for a firm, intratesticular mass.
(15) Of 16 postpubertal patients evaluated following testicular torsion 9 were treated with detorsion and bilateral orchiopexy (detorsion group), and 7 were treated with ipsilateral orchiectomy and contralateral orchiopexy (orchiectomy group).
(16) The patient underwent right orchiectomy on December 23, 1987.
(17) Two-thirds of the patients with recurrence received hormonal therapy, including bilateral orchiectomy.
(18) Right radical orchiectomy was done and histological examination revealed malignant lymphoma of the testis (diffuse lymphoma, mixed type).
(19) Race, stage at initial diagnosis, prior radiation therapy, prior orchiectomy, and elevation of CEA had no prognostic association.
(20) 85% of these cases, reported in the literature, are treated with an orchiectomy.