  We review some aspects of the interplay between inhomogeneities at long
length scales and the intrinsic fluctuations of Cooper pairs above Tc in HTSC.
These inhomogeneities do not directly affect the thermal fluctuations, but they
may affect the measured behaviour of any observable around Tc. The emphasis is
centered on the role played by the presence of Tc-inhomogeneities on the
in-plane transport properties. For completeness, we will also summarize some
results on this interplay when various types of inhomogeneities (i.e.,
structural and stoichiometric, uniformly and non-uniformly distributed) are
simultaneously present.
