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Clinical and anatomopathological study of 2000 cryptorchid testes
J Gracia1, N González, M E Gómez
1Department of Paediatric Surgery, Miguel Servet Children's Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain.
Objective:
To establish whether age at the time of surgery and location of the testes help to determine the anatomopathological lesions.
Patients And Methods:
Between 1972 and 1992 surgery was performed on 2000 testes in 1342 children, 658 of whom had bilateral cryptorchidism. The clinical, surgical and anatomopathological records were reviewed.
Results:
Parametric and non-parametric tests failed to reveal any relation between the tubular fertility index or tubular diameter and the time of surgery or testicular location.
Conclusion:
We cannot recommend a particular age at which surgery should be performed, in relation to the anatomopathological damage.