Course of Testicular Injury Following Accidental Exposure to Nuclear Radiations

Abstract

Case report including sperm test study and biopsy material, of a 34-yr.-old man, accidentally exposed to radiations composed of slow and fast neutrons and gamma and beta rays of various intensities and energies. From these studies it appears that regeneration of the atrophic human testis after irradiation is extremely slow, in contradistinction to the rapid recovery observed in various exptl. animals.