Testis development is a complex process that starts even before birth. Normally, the developing testes progressively migrate to reach the scrotum during the fetal stage. However, any abnormality in ...

The gold-standard orchidopexy procedure in boys with an undescended testis (UDT) involves inguinal exploration with a subsequent scrotal incision to allow placement of the mobilized testis.

IN 1961 Oikawa and Blizzard 1 described an eleven-year-old phenotypic male with bilateral undescended testes, clinical features of Turner's syndrome, a positive buccal smear and absence of a Y ...

The results suggested that early prolonged hormonal therapy is advisable in all patients with cryptorchidism to increase the speed of testicular descent to the scrotum achieved by surgery, and thereby ...

Undescended testicles (UT), which is used synonymously with the term cryptorchidism, is characterized as the failure of either one or both testes and their associated structures to descend during ...

In boys with undescended testis, the risk of developing infertility is traditionally predicted based on a decrease in germ cell count observed using testicular biopsy samples. However, the process of ...