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. 2017 May 18;16(3):240–251. doi: 10.1002/rmb2.12037

Table 1.

Pretreatment semen parameters in patients with testicular cancer (TC)

Authors Year of study report Patients with pre‐orchiectomy data Sperm concentration (×106/mL) (range) Sperm motility (%) (range) Morphologically normal sperm (%) (range)
Nijman et al.23
1985
14 with TC 13.20a (0‐63) 31.0a (0‐70) 48.0a (30‐58)
59 controls 73.80a (8‐185) 50.0a (10‐80) 58.0a (32‐77)
Botchan et al.24
1997
32 with seminoma 50.00b (0‐230) 40.0b (0‐60) 37.0b (0‐57)
22 with nonseminoma 17.00b (0‐288) 35.0b (0‐58) 30.0b (0‐46)
190 controls 175.00b (2‐476) 50.0b (0‐90) 44.0b (3‐92)
Petersen et al.25
1999
63 with TC 15.00b (0‐128) 66.0b (0‐93) 41.0b (19‐75)
141 controls 48.00b (0‐402) 65.0b (32‐100) 42.0b (8‐65)
Williams IV et al.26
2009
179 with TC 32.90a (1.0‐308.5) 48.5a (1‐85) N/A
Fraietta et al.27
2010
37 with seminoma 25.98a (0‐145) 56.3a (0‐88) 10.0a (2‐21)
63 with nonseminoma 14.46a (0‐63.3) 54.2a (1‐89) 8.2a (1‐21)
Johnson et al.28
2013
134 with TC 24.80b (0‐203) 41.5b (0‐96) N/A
Auger et al.29
2016
2315 with TC 19.60b (5.4‐48.8)c 45.0b (30‐56) 33.0b (19‐48)

N/A, not applicable or not available. aMean; bMedian; cInterquartile range.