Clinical Observation on Undescended Testis

Kim, Sung Young; Kim, Chun Gon

Abstract

A clinical observation was made on 36 patients of cryptorchidism who had been admitted to the department of Urology, Cho sun University Medical School during the period from January, 1981 to February, 1984. The results were as follows: 1. The cryptorchidism had the highest incidence rate among the anomalies of the genitourinary tract (35%). 2. Age distribution ranged from 20 months to 40 years, and the most frequent age group was 6 to 10 years old. 3. Of the 47 undescended testes, the most popular location was inguinal type in 22 testes(45.8%), and bilateral cryptorchidism were found in 11 cases, right in 18 cases and left in 7 cases. 4, Hormonal therapy was done on 7 cases of bilateral cryptorchidism but only one case was respond with partial descent. 5. Orchiopexy was performed on all the cases of cryptorchidism.