Clinical Observation on Undescended Testes

Nam, Sang Eun; Chin, Kil Nam

Abstract

A clinical observation was made on 50 cases of undescended testes of the in-patient in the Department of Urology, Capital Armed Forces General Hospital during the period from January, 1977 to December, 1976. The results were as follows: 1) Age distribution varies from 3 to 32 years and 21 cases (42%) were between 21 and 25 years old 2) Bilateral undescended testes were found in 7 cases, right in 28 cases and left in 15 cases 3) Of the 67 undescended testes, most popular location was inguinal type in 39 testes (68.4%) 4) Hormonal therapy was done on 8 cases (15 testes) but only 2 cases of bilateral type responded with partial descent. 5) Orchiopexy was performed on 35 testes (61. 4%), orchiectomy on 21 testes (36.8%) and 1 case (1.8%) was confirmed as monorchism on exploration. 6) Of the several methods of orchiopexy, dartos pouch method revealed high success rate (88. 5%). 7) In the histopathologic findings of testicular biopsies, there were presented numerous spermatogonia, not shown degenerative changes of seminiferous tubules, basement membrane and stroma, up to the age of 5, there were spermatogonia occasionally, atrophic findings of seminiferous tubules, thickening of basement membrane and widening of stroma.