To study surgical reversibility of intraabdominal cryptorchidism, a study in which weanling rats were made artificially cryptorchid was undertaken. At the same time both sperm ducts were anastomosed into the urine bladder (vasocystostomy) to enable sperm output measurements, which were performed by putting the animals in metabolic cages for 24 hr. Group I animals were reoperated on 2 weeks afte...

OBJECTIVE Peeping testis is an inconsistently palpable/seen undescended testis that migrates back and forth at the internal inguinal ring. Both open and laparoscopic orchiopexy are effective forms of management. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of both approaches. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between September 2007 and January 2012, 46 peeping inguinal testes were randomly ...

OBJECTIVE Laparoscopy has become one of the important diagnostic modalities of nonpalpable testis and has been developed and applied in the treatment of this disease. In the present study, we investigated the usefulness of laparoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of nonpalpable testis. METHODS Laparoscopy was carried out under general anesthesia on 21 patients (23 testes) from October 1991 ...

PURPOSE We evaluated the clinical and therapeutic characteristics of adult cryptorchidism, which have been difficult to establish, given the small number of patients presenting to outpatient clinics. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective study of 20 adult patients with cryptorchid testis was performed. We analyzed their palpation of testis, location, surgical method, marital status, number of...

The history of treatment for cryptorchidism dates back more than 200 years. This review is intended to highlight some historical aspect that led us to our current surgical treatment of this condition. The medical and historical surgical literatures pertaining to cryptorchidism were reviewed. Data sources were PubMed, Embase, conference proceedings, and bibliographies. No language, date, or publ...

BACKGROUND: The frequency of cryptorchidism varies and depends on gestational age, affecting 1.04.6% full-term 1.145% preterm newborns. Treatment this defect is currently surgical. Orchiopexy one the frequent surgical aids in practice a pediatric surgeon urologist. need for bilateral inguinal to perform several incisions or separate operations each side by time forces surgeons continue searchin...

PURPOSE We performed low scrotal approach orchiopexy in patients with prescrotal cryptorchidism. The processus vaginalis was not ligated if it was not widely patent. We retrospectively evaluated the long-term outcomes of low scrotal approach orchiopexy without processus vaginalis ligation. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 137 patients (227 testes) were diagnosed with prescrotal cryptorchidism...

Aim: A review was done to assess the preoperative evaluation, intraoperative findings and the postoperative outcomes of orchiopexy at a tertiary pediatric center over a two year period. We compared our results with the international literature which has shown a success rate of 89% for an open, inguinal approach and 50% to 100% for a variety of minimally invasive approaches. Methods: A retrospec...