Effect of treatment on fertility and sexual function in males with metastatic nonseminomatous germ cell tumors of testis
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in American Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Vol. 8 (2), 178-182
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000421-198504000-00014
Abstract
The effects of therapy on the sexual ability and fertility of sixty-seven patients with nonseminomatous germ cell tumors of the testis were analyzed. Ten of 38 patients had subfertile sperm counts before therapy. Normal ejaculation was preserved in only 7/61 patients who underwent retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. In five of these patients, sperm analysis was done after chemotherapy; all had complete azoospermia. An effort to restore ejaculation with imipramine yielded only minimal response in 4/9 patients who received this drug. No major long-term effects on the libido were observed.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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