BACKGROUND Several studies have indicated that cryptorchidism is associated with degenerative changes in both Sertoli cells and germ cells. The gonadal peptide hormone inhibin B reflects Sertoli cell function. Low inhibin B levels are found in a large portion of formerly cryptorchid men who show compromised seminiferous tubule function. It is not known if inhibin B can be used to demonstrate ea...

OBJECTIVE Testicular cell transplantation has been widely used to investigate the restoration of fertility in rodent models. In this research we apply transplantation as a treatment method in the cryptorchid model and compare this method with orchidopexy, which is the routine treatment for this problem. We studied the controversial effects of treatment on the number of germ cells and other morp...

Objectives: To evaluate the results obtained with the technique of distal spermatic vessel ligation in children with upper or intra-abdominal undescended testis. Methods: Analysis of cryptorchid patients treated with Koff-Sethi technique for orquiopexy. Patient series: 15 children with unior bilateral cryptorchidism. Postoperative gonad viability was evaluated on the basis of clinical data, phy...

A 21-year-old Romanian man presented to our clinic for leanness assessment evolving several years. He had been adopted at the age of 3 years old; hence, no familial history was available. His medical notable dyspraxia, dyslexia, bilateral cryptorchidism, and scoliosis in infancy. practiced water polo, swimming, martial arts, but recent years, amyotrophy weakness both arms developed (Figure, A) ...

49,XXXXY is rare chromosomal pattern and these patients have mental retardation, small penis, cryptorchidism and skeletal anomalies. We reported a 10 month-old boy who has hypotonia, microcephaly, hypertelorism, depressed nasal bridge, epicanthic folds and bilateral multiple ear tags, high arched palate, down set ears, micrognathia and congenital heart disease such as patent ductus arteriosus (...

A male Bedouin baby with the clinical profile of femoral hypoplasia-unusual facies syndrome is described. The phenotype includes bilateral asymmetrical lower limb hypoplasia/aplasia with short remnants of both femora, absent right tibia, bifid right big toe, dysmorphic facies, thoracic/pelvic abnormalities, macrophallus, and bilateral cryptorchidism. This report re-emphasises the previously des...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to present a rare congenital anomaly of polyorchidism and to review the current management. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION We report the case of a 19-year-old man who was referred for the treatment of an indirect left inguinal hernia. The ultrasound demonstrated a testis on the right side with an additional mass. The preoperative laboratory studies ...

Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome (PMDS) is a rare type of male pseudohermaphroditism characterized by the presence derivatives (uterus, fallopian tubes and upper vagina), cryptorchidism either unilateral or bilateral along with inguinal hernia in phenotypically genotypically person. PMDS rarely associated malignancies, most common being testicular germ cell tumours. Occasional case Adenocarci...