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Andrology

Medical specialty

Field	Value
name	Andrologist
official_names	Doctor, medical specialist
type	Specialty
activity_sector	Medicines
employment_field	Hospitals, clinics

Doctor of Medicine
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Andrology (from , anēr, genitive ἀνδρός, andros 'man' and -λογία, -logia) is a name for the medical specialty that deals with male health, particularly relating to the problems of the male reproductive system and urological problems that are unique to men. It is the parallel to gynecology, which deals with medical issues which are specific to female health, especially reproductive and urologic health.

Process

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.

From reproductive and urologic viewpoints, male-specific medical and surgical procedures include vasectomy, vasovasostomy (one of the vasectomy reversal procedures), orchidopexy, circumcision, sperm/semen cryopreservation, surgical sperm retrieval, semen analysis (for fertility or post-vasectomy), sperm preparation for assisted reproductive technology (ART) as well as intervention to deal with male genitourinary disorders such as the following:

Balanitis
Carcinoma of the penis
Cryptorchidism
Epididymitis
Epispadias
Erectile dysfunction
Frenulum breve
Hydrocele
Hypospadias
Infertility
Micropenis
Orchitis
Paraphimosis
Penile fracture
Peyronie's disease
Phimosis
Post-vasectomy pain syndrome
Priapism
Prostate cancer
Prostatitis
Retrograde ejaculation
Seminal vesiculitis
Spermatocele
Testicular cancer
Testicular torsion
Varicocele

History

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 periodical Andrologie (now called Andrologia), published from 1969 onwards. The next specialty journal covering both the basic and clinical andrology was the International 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 the Journal of Andrology. In 2012, these two society journals merged into one premier journal in the field, named Andrology, with the first issue published in January 2013.

References

Thelander, Hulda E., and Mollie Cholffin. "Neonatal cortical insufficiency (Addison's disease) associated with the adrenogenital syndrome." The Journal of Pediatrics 18.6 (1941): 779-792.
''Social Studies of Science'' (1990) '''20''', p. 32
(2012). "'ANDROLOGY'– The New Journal of the American Society of Andrology and the European Academy of Andrology.". International Journal of Andrology.

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