What is the Rate of Spontaneous Testicular Descent in Infants With Cryptorchidism?
- 1 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 171 (2) , 849-851
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ju.0000106100.21225.d7
Abstract
Purpose: It has been speculated that late spontaneous testicular descent occurs in more than 70% of newborns with cryptorchidism. Based on this belief, the decision for orchiopexy is often ...Keywords
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