[Participation of gonads in chronic poisonings with heavy metals]. / Zur Mitbeteiligung von Gonaden bei chronischen Vergiftungen mit Schwermetallen.

On the basis of clinical examinations in 23 of 37 patients with chronic heavy metal intoxications hypofunctions of the gonads were proved in the sense of a deficitary spermatogenesis. By application of gonadotropic hormones the spermatogenesis could be stimulated, so that a deficient excretion of hormones in toxic lesion of the hypothalamo-hypophysary structures of the patients is to be taken into consideration.