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Andrologist
Occupation
Names	Doctor, Medical Specialist
Type	Specialty
Activity sectors	Medicine
Description
Education required	Doctor of Medicine
Fields of employment	Hospitals, Clinics
Average salary	USD $95,000 (M.D.)

Andrology (from Greek ἀνήρ, anēr, genitive ἀνδρός, andros, "man"; and -λογία, -logia) is 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 counterpart to gynaecology, which deals with medical issues which are specific to the female reproductive system. 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.^[1]

Male-specific medical and surgical procedures include vasectomy and vasovasostomy (one of the vasectomy reversal procedures) as well as intervention to deal with male genitourinary disorders such as:

• balanitis
• cryptorchidism
• epispadias
• epididymitis
• frenulum breve
• hydrocele
• hypospadias
• erectile dysfunction
• infertility
• micropenis
• orchitis
• paraphimosis
• Carcinoma of the penis
• penile fracture
• Peyronie's disease
• phimosis
• prostatitis
• prostate cancer
• spermatocele
• testicular cancer
• testicular torsion
• varicocele

[edit] See also

• Men's health
• Men's health risks

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Social Studies of Science (1990) 20, p. 32

[edit] External links

• American Society of Andrology
• International Society of Andrology
• The World of Andrology
• Andrology Australia - Australian Centre of Excellence in Male Reproductive Health

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