background: undescended testis (udt) is the most common endocrine disorder in male children. delayed diagnosis and treatment of udt lead to complications such as infertility, malignancy and testis rotation. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the causes of delay in proper treatment of patients with undescended testis in our population. materials and methods: an observational, descr...

laparoscopic orchiopexy (lo) was used in place of open surgery in 10 patients for diagnosing cryptorchidism in our department. in this method a large abdominal incision was not given in search of intra-abdominal testes. anorchia was diagnosed in four patients, which was shown to be bilateral in one. in one subject with ambiguous genitalia, revealing the presence of intra-abdominal gonads establ...

BACKGROUND One third of infants with congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) are said to have micropenis and/or bilateral or unilateral cryptorchidism leading many of them to orchiopexy. Our previous study in two patients suggests that prolonged subcutaneous infusion of large doses of gonadotropins might normalize testicular function and growth. CASE PRESENTATION To confirm the effects...

PURPOSE Controversy exists regarding the best approach to impalpable testes. We determined the usefulness of diagnostic laparoscopy for the management of impalpable testes. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 2000 and 2008, 86 patients with a mean age of 34 months underwent diagnostic laparoscopy. An inguinal canal exploration was performed in all cases, except in patients in whom the internal sper...

Neoplasia UDT is associated with an increased risk of germ cell tumour of the testis. It has been suggested that males with UDT have a 40 times increase in the rate of neoplasia above the general population.1 Although this number is debatable, these data need to be interpreted with caution because testicular malignancy is very rare in Africa.2 The role of orchiopexy in reducing malignancy is co...

Background: Undescended testes are a common problem, affecting up to 3% of newborn males. The goals of orchiopexy in humans are to provide adequate scrotal fixation, to prevent recurrent torsion of the testis and spermatic cord or ascent of the testis, and to achieve these goals with minimal trauma to the testis. The best method of achieving fixation remains controversial. Purpose: The aim of o...

Ectopic penis is usually associated with penoscrotal transposition, and it is rarely observed in isolation. We report a surgical approach for an extremely rare case. A 10-year-old male patient with bilateral cryptorchidism and ectopic penis and scrotum in perineal area, with no penoscrotal transposition, representing an association not yet described in literature. A previous orchiopexy failed d...