Androgen insensitivity (testicular feminization) syndrome is a rare inherited form of male pseudohermaphroditism that occurs in phenotypically normal woman with male karyotype (XY). The undescended testis may go into malignant transformation. The androgen insensitivity syndrome with malignant testicular disorder is very rare. A thirty-one year old female was admitted to the hospital with the co...

One of the regular methods of progression in medicine is by the analysis of large vaguely assorted groups of cases into smaller and exactly defined categories. The process consists in a mixture of observation, abstract reasoning and experiment. As instances of this the work of Hamilton Russell (1922) may be quoted, when by a combination of observation and abstract reasoning he established the e...

PURPOSE To evaluate the relationship between unilateral or bilateral criptorchidism, patient age, primary location of the gonad and modality of treatment with testicular volume and hormonal status at 18 years in patients diagnosed and treated for cryptorchidism during childhood. MATERIALS AND METHODS Testicular volume, LH, FSH, and testosterone were evaluated in 143 young men at 18 years trea...

Torsion of an undescended testis is uncommon. Torsion of a cryptorchid testicle presents a nonspecific symptomatology. Clinical suspicion indicates emergent surgical exploration, irrespective of Doppler ultrasound with its inherent false negative results. Management of the contralateral testis is controversial. We emphasize the need of a complete physical examination of the child who goes to th...

Consideration of Submandibular (Undescended) Ectopic Parathyroid Glands in Surgery and Localization Studies Anatomyof theparathyroidglandsvaries.Duringembryogenesis, precursor glands descend from the third and fourth pharyngeal pouches into the neck, but up to 20% end up in “ectopic” locations.1 Adenomas that develop fromundescended glands in the submandibular region aredifficult to identify on...

This is a retrospective observational study of outcome of 11 cases of vaginal hysterectomy for undescended and enlarged uterus carried in University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur. The cases included relative contraindications such as 14 weeks size fibroids, severe obesity, previous Caesarean section and nulliparity. All the eight patients agreeable for prophylactic bilateral salpingoophorectomy had th...