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Medicina Legal de Costa Rica
On-line version ISSN 2215-5287Print version ISSN 1409-0015
Abstract
LI CANESSA, Allan and MADRIGAL RAMIREZ, Edgar. Esterilidad masculina por trauma testicular contuso cerrado A propósito de dos casos. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2015, vol.32, n.2, pp.167-172. ISSN 2215-5287.
The blunt testicular trauma is an uncommon lesion that occurs mainly in young men, which occurs due to the violent impact of the testes against the pubic arch. Such blunt trauma injury may cause different levels of testicular tissue and adnexal structures that are associated with male sterility through spermatogenesis disorders, autoimmune mechanisms or by injury the postesticulares ducts. Two cases of blunt testicular trauma in which infertility was diagnosed were evaluated as part of sequelar been studied.
Keywords : Blunt testicular trauma; infertility; forensic medical evaluation.