Corpora amylacea-like bodies are described in the seminiferous tubules of 9 patients with simple cryptorchidism, 3 with cryptorchidism and male pseudohermaphrodism and one with cryptorchidism and prepubertal Klinefelter's syndrome. There were 2 patients with male pseudohermaphrodism and one with prepubertal Klinefelter's syndrome whose testes did not contain intratubular bodies, and such bodies have been described in the scrotal testes by others. It is concluded that the presence of intratubular bodies per se does not have serious implications.

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