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 ...

The testes begin to develop in a boy's abdomen near his kidneys whilst he is a fetus. Before he is born they travel down the abdomen, through the groin and into the scrotum or bag behind his penis.

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 ...

Undescended testis is commonly found in newborn boys and usually normalizes spontaneously by the age of six months. In one in a hundred boys, however, at least one testis remains undescended—a ...

(HealthDay News) — Combined diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) show a greater performance compared to conventional MRI alone for identification of non-palpable ...

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 ...

The study used 2016-2020 information from the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS), an administrative database that includes more than 49 children's hospitals. The authors stratified study ...

Presented at the Annual Meeting of the New England Branch of the American Urological Association at Boston, November 8, 1934. O'Brien, Edward J. — Visiting Surgeon, Cambridge City Hospital. For record ...

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 ...