Undescended Testicle

Abstract
DISCUSSING the diagnosis and treatment of imperfect descent of the testicle Browne1 relates an example of the advice given by various physicians to the parents of such a patient. They were told that an immediate operation must be performed if the child was not to be practically a eunuch; that they should wait for five years to see what happened; that the patient should be treated by hormone injections; that operation must on no account be done, since it was invariably unsuccessful; and that the testis was held up by a displaced vertebra that must be treated (this advice was . . .

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