The Treatment of Incompletely Descended Testicle

A treatment of undescended testicle in infancy.

This study is based upon the examination of 2,700 newborn boys. The original purpose was to find out how often the testicle was undescended at birth and what happened in such cases during the first few months of life. It is not difficult to feel the testicle of a newborn boy if it be lying outside the external inguinal ring. Examination may only become uncertain, and at times impossible, when t...

Cryptorchidism (Undescended Testicle) — Diagnosis and Treatment

Cryptorchidism is a term used to describe the failure of descent of the testicle into the scrotum. This condition is common among premature boys, 33% of them, and can still be identified in full-term boys in approximately 5%. Ultrasonography can help localize inguinal testicles, while abdominal magnetic resonance imaging or laparoscopy can identify non-palpable intraabdominal testis. Hormonal t...

Cryptorchidism (Undescended Testicle) — Diagnosis and Treatment

Cryptorchidism is a term used to describe the failure of descent of the testicle into the scrotum. This condition is common among premature boys, 33% of them, and can still be identified in full-term boys in approximately 5%. Ultrasonography can help localize inguinal testicles, while abdominal magnetic resonance imaging or laparoscopy can identify non-palpable intraabdominal testis. Hormonal t...

Cryptorchidism (Undescended Testicle) — Diagnosis and Treatment

Cryptorchidism is a term used to describe the failure of descent of the testicle into the scrotum. This condition is common among premature boys, 33% of them, and can still be identified in full-term boys in approximately 5%. Ultrasonography can help localize inguinal testicles, while abdominal magnetic resonance imaging or laparoscopy can identify non-palpable intraabdominal testis. Hormonal t...

Diseases of the Testicle