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Record W2054887033 · doi:10.1159/000279460

The Granulomatous Lesions of the Testicle and Epididymis

2010· article· en· W2054887033 on OpenAlexaff
I Rovinescu, Grant Reid

Bibliographic record

VenueUrologia Internationalis · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTesticular diseases and treatments
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityMontreal General Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEpididymisTesticleLesionMedicinePathologyPathogenesisGranulomaStromaSpermAnatomyAndrologyImmunohistochemistry

Abstract

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The authors present five cases of spermatic granulomas of the testicle and the epididymis with some discussion concerning the pathogenesis. It seems most probable that there is a chemical type of reaction in response to the presence of sperm outside the normal pathways. The spermatic granuloma begins with an inflammatory or traumatic lesion that provides a means for the sperm to invade the tubular epithelial cell and then the stroma. The slowly degenerating spermatozoa reaching the peritubular and the interstitial spaces release an acid fast lipid which together with the granulocytic substance in the presence of hyalouronidase and other enzymes plays an important fole in further destruction of the sperm. There may be problems in the microscopic diagnosis of these granulomata and the confusion with the tuberculous lesion should be kept in mind. Testicular granuloma should be differentiated from a malignant tumour.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.008

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.245 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2010
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