From the Division of Urology, Chamran Hospital Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I.R.lran.
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In this study we have described our varicocele cases in terms of associated
symptoms/signs. In addition, we have tested the correlation between semen
parameters and varicocele grades and compared the relative frequencies of
associated symptoms/signs in different varicocele grades. 1 19 referred cases of
varicocele were categorized based on clinical criteria into 3 grades by one
examiner. The relative frequencies of associated symptoms/signs of the grades
were compared. 52 of the cases whose semen analyses were performed at the same
laboratory were included for comparison of semen parameters.
Most of the cases were single conscripts. Age range was 1 8 to 38 years and the
mean age was 23 years. Pain was the most common associated finding in our
mostly single physically active cases. Of all the 1 19 cases, 9 were grade 1 , 63 grade
2, and 47 grade 3. Mean sperm concentration was 60.3 million per cubic
centimeter. No significant difference was found in the relative frequencies of
associated symptoms/signs among different grades. Difference in semen parameters
among grades was negligible and not significant at 0. 1 (0.05 as well).
Pain could be the most common associated finding in young single physically
active varicocele cases. It seems that varicocele grade bears no significance over
the relative frequencies of associated symptoms/signs. Our data is against any
clinically and/or statistically significant relationship between varicocele size and
semen parameters.