Rete testis dysgenesis

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......intratesticular spermatic duct system (rete testis, RT) in patients with cryptorchidism...not received the same attention. The rete testis (RT) connects 1400 seminiferous tubules...cryptorchidia. The term dysgenesis of the rete testis has been introduced to designate this...

Cystic dysplasia of the testis with terminal ureterectasis and renal...

Southern Medical Journal;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......dysplasia of the testis or ectasia of the rete testis is a rare congenital anomaly. (1) We...of mesonephric duct origin, and the rete testis, which is derived from the gonadal blastoma...precisely termed cystic dysplasia of the rete testis. (4) The mechanism of development is...

Focal orchitis in undescended testes: Discussion of pathogenetic...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......this lesion in the etiology of tubular atrophy. Methods.-We performed...numbers), Sertoli cell morphology, tubular lumen dilation, rete testis pattern (normal, hypoplastic...with inflammatory infiltrates. Tubular ectasia was observed in 13 cases. The rete testis was ...

RADIOLOGICAL CASE OF THE MONTH

Applied Radiology;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......the lower testis was believed to represent ectasia of the rete testis. DISCUSSION There is a discrepancy in the number of reported...part of the genital ridge that is not in contact with the rete testis. * Type II: The supernumerary testis has its own epididymis...

Complications of vasectomy.

American Family Physician;  November 15, 1993 ;     700+ words ......Effects of Vasectomy ANATOMIC CHANGES The greatest anatomic effects of vasectomy occur in the rete testis, epididymis and vas deferens.(4)(5) The rete testis and epididymis frequently sustain damage induced by back-up pressure.(4) Blow-outs and secondary...

Missouri Inventor Develops Animal Spermatogenesis Inhibiting Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 6, 2007 ;     226 words ......The injection of the chemical sterilant into the dorsal cranial portion has an effect on the epithelium of the tubuli recti, rete testis and ductus efferentes in addition to stopping spermatogenesis in the seminiferous tubules." The inventor was issued U.S. Patent...

Pathologic quiz case: A papillary ovarian tumor in a 4-year-old girl

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......pleomorphism and little to moderate amount of cytoplasm. Slitlike glandular spaces and cysts of varying sizes, reminiscent of rete testis, formed the majority of the tumor (Figure 2, hematoxylineosin, original magnification X 100). The cysts contained papillary...

Caroli Disease

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  February 1, 2007 ;     368 words ......involving the right lobe. Splenomegaly and other findings suggestive of portal hypertension were absent, but bilateral renal tubular ectasia was evident. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography also showed communications between saccular dilatations of the...

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and testicular cancer: a case-control...

Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......histological type was, as expected, germ cell cancer (103 cases). One patient had an epididymal cancer (adenocarcinoma of the rete testis), and 2 had a cancer that was not germ cell cancer. As we already mentioned, we excluded these 3 subjects from the analysis...

Possible involvement of microtubules and microfilaments of the epididymal...

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......hormones are produced mainly in testis and together with other hormones and factors are transported to the epididymis via rete testis fluid. The secretory activity of epididymal epithelial cells provides an environment for the post-testicular maturation of...

Primary paratesticular lymphoma: A report of 2 cases and review of the...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......125:428-432) T lymphoma is an aggressive extranodal nonHodgkin lymphoma (NHL) that frequently invades the tunica albuginea, rete testis, epididymis, and spermatic cord by contiguous spread.1 In one large series, microscopic involvement of the epididymis and...

Pathologic Quiz Case: Incidental Bilateral Testicular Nodules in an...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......evident and mitotic figures were very rare. The tumor infiltrated but did not perforate the tunica albuginea. The epididymis, rete testis, and spermatic cord were free of tumor. The uninvolved testicular parenchyma showed decreased spermatogenesis. Immunohistochemical...

Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis Mimicking Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......autopsy performed on an individual diagnosed with NFD revealed fibrosis of the diaphragm, psoas muscle, renal tubules, and rete testis, suggesting that the fibrosing disorder was not limited exclusively to the integument.5 Additional reports demonstrated that...

Intratubular embryonal carcinoma: A report of 2 cases

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......cell neoplasia, unclassified type, in the adjacent testicular parenchyma in both cases. However, pagetoid spread into the rete testis was not observed. Immunohistochemical Findings The paraffin blocks were available for immunohistochemical study only in case...

Molecular evidence supporting the neoplastic nature of some epidermoid...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......epidermoid cysts. Some authors have suggested that epidermoid cysts may originate from squamous metaplasia of the mesothelium, rete testis; or seminiferous tubular epithelium.4 Others indicate that epidermoid cysts arise from germ cells and represent monodermal...