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| Names | Doctor, medical specialist |
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Activity sectors | Medicines |
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Fields of employment | Hospitals,clinics |
Andrology (fromAncient Greek:ἀνήρ,anēr,genitiveἀνδρός,andros 'man' and-λογία,-logia) is a name for themedical specialty that deals withmale health, particularly relating to the problems of themale reproductive system andurological problems that are unique tomen. It is the parallel togynecology, which deals with medical issues which are specific to female health, especially reproductive and urologic health.
Andrology covers anomalies in the connective tissues pertaining to the genitalia, as well as changes in the volume of cells, such as in genital hypertrophy or macrogenitosomia.[1]
From reproductive and urologic viewpoints, male-specific medical andsurgical procedures includevasectomy,vasovasostomy (one of the vasectomy reversal procedures),orchidopexy,circumcision, sperm/semen cryopreservation, surgical sperm retrieval, semen analysis (for fertility or post-vasectomy), sperm preparation forassisted reproductive technology (ART) as well as intervention to deal with male genitourinary disorders such as the following:
Unlike gynaecology, which has a plethora of medical board certification programs worldwide, andrology has none. Andrology has only been studied as a distinct specialty since the late 1960s: the first specialist journal on the subject was the German periodicalAndrologie (now calledAndrologia), published from 1969 onwards.[2] The next specialty journal covering both the basic and clinical andrology was theInternational Journal of Andrology, established in 1978, which became the official journal of the European Academy of Andrology in 1992. In 1980 the American Society of Andrology launched theJournal of Andrology. In 2012, these two society journals merged into one premier journal in the field, namedAndrology, with the first issue published in January 2013.[3]
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