[Epididymitis Tuberculosa in the Change of Time. A study of the bioptic material of forty years (1932-1971)].

Significance and course of epididymitis tuberculosa are explored by means of all the bioptic material of a forty years period. The results from the time before and after the introduction of the tuberculostatica are compared with each other. Shortly before and during the second world war and also at the end of the fifties the epididymitis tuberculosa was seen very frequently. It decreases since 1959. Generally the isolated epididymis is affected. In a number of cases the tuberculous inflammation is also spreading out to the homolateral testicle, the vas deferens and the tunica vaginalis testis. Evidently during the third decade the tuberculous epididymitis is increasing rapidly. Most cases are observed in the forth decade. The morphologic picture of the epididymitis tuberculosa has changed. During the first 20 years more cases of the granulomatous type have been observed, whereas during the following 20 years more cases of the necrotising type are present.