Morphological changes in genesial system of men: medico-legal aspects

Leg Med (Tokyo). 2003 Mar:5 Suppl 1:S228-32. doi: 10.1016/s1344-6223(02)00119-0.

Abstract

With the purpose of perfection of examination the character of structural changes in testicles and prostate is investigated; the comparative qualitative and quantitative analysis of cellular reactions of persons with chronic somatopathies (rheumatic disease, idiopathic hypertensia) and chronic household intoxications (alcoholic illness, narcomania) is carried out. The work is carried out on 50 corpses of male persons, 18-35 years old, who died of chronic drunkenness (13 observations), narcomania (20), idiopathic hypertensia (9), and rheumatic disease (8). The suppression of testicles was characterized by disturbances of spermatogenesis at a level of the cell population, characteristic for a zero and first degree of spermatogenesis activity especially expressed in chronic narcotic intoxication. The damage to a prostate was stacked in a picture of a chronic relapsing prostatitis and chronic indurative prostatitis with the outcome of cirrhosis of prostata, being most typical for chronic alcohol intoxication. Morpho-functional investigation of a prostate and testicles affected by chronic somatopathies and chronic household intoxications, both qualitative and quantitative, testify to reduction of function of activity of these organs (hormonal imbalances, mail sterility, sex frustration). Thus, the persons suspected of violent actions of a sexual nature should be examined in order to reveal both erectile dysfunctions and disruption of spermatogenesis.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Alcoholism / pathology
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Central Nervous System Depressants / adverse effects*
  • Ethanol / adverse effects*
  • Forensic Medicine / methods
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Penis / drug effects
  • Penis / pathology*
  • Prostate / drug effects
  • Prostate / pathology*
  • Prostatitis / etiology
  • Prostatitis / pathology
  • Spermatogenesis / drug effects
  • Substance-Related Disorders / pathology*
  • Testis / drug effects
  • Testis / pathology*

Substances

  • Central Nervous System Depressants
  • Ethanol