Inguinal hernias and genital abnormalities in young Jordanian males

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 483-488

  Ghazzal, Asad M H ^a  

^a KING HUSSEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INGUINAL HERNIA; JORDAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; SOLDIER; VARICOCELE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COST OF ILLNESS; CRYPTORCHIDISM; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; JORDAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 33749470658     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Koltuksuz U et al. Congenital inguinal pathologies in Malataya school age children. Journal of Turgut Özal Medical Center, 1999, 6(1):9-12.
2. Lugo-Vicente H. Recurrent inguinal hernias. Pediatric surgery update, 2003, 21(6).
3. Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia. Hernia. Bethesda, Maryland, National Institutes of Health, (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/ 000960.htm, accessed 29 October 2003).
4. Laurance B, Hiep TN. Center for the Study and Treatment of Hypospadias. San Francisco, University of California, San Francisco (http://urology.ucsf.edu/clinicalRes/CRhypo.html, accessed 3 May 2002).
5. Gallentine ML, Morey AF, Thompson IM Jr. Hypospadias: a contemporary epidemiologic assessment. Urology, 2001, 57(4):788-90.
6. Thomas FK. Cryptorchidism. Omaha, Nebraska, eMedicine, 2002 (http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2707.htm, accessed 3 May 2002).
7. Nicolaij D et al. Comparison of scrotal scintigraphy and thermography for the diagnosis of varicocele. European journal of nuclear medicine, 1983, 8:123-6.
8. Sawczuk IS et al. Varicoceles: effect on testicular volume in prepubertal and pubertal males. Urology, 1993, 41(5): 466-8.
9. Meacham RB et al. The incidence of varicoceles in the general population when evaluated by physical examination, gray scale sonography and color Doppler sonography. Journal of urology, 1994, 151(6):1535-8.
10. Sandlow J. Pathogenesis and treatment of varicoceles. British medical journal, 2004, 328(7454):967-8.
11. Belloli G et al. Fertility rates after successful correction of varicocele in adolescence and adulthood. European journal of pediatric surgery, 1995, 5(4):216-8.
12. Kingsnorth A. Treating inguinal hernias. British medical journal, 2004, 328(7431): 59-60.
13. Yucesan S et al. Prevalence of congenital abnormalities in Turkish school children. European journal of epidemiology, 1993, 9(4):373-80.
14. Al-Abbadi K, Smadi SA. Genital abnormalities and groin hernias in elementary-school children in Aqaba: an epidemiological study. Eastern Mediterranean health journal, 2000, 6(2-3):293-8.
15. Mondaini N et al. Hypospadias: incidence and effects on psychosexual development as evaluated with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test in a sample of 11 649 young Italian men. Urologia internationalis, 2002, 68(2):81-5.
16. Pierik FH et al. A high hypospadias rate in the Netherlands. Human reproduction, 2002, 17(4):1112-5.
17. Leung TJ, Baird PA, McGillivray B. Hypospadias in British Columbia. American journal of medical genetics, 1985, 21(1): 39-50.
18. Vrtanen HE et al. The birth rate of hypospadias in the Turku area in Finland. Acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica scandinavica, 2001, 109(2): 96-100.
19. Al-Arrayed SS. Epidemiology of congenital abnormalities in Bahrain. Eastern Mediterranean health journal, 1995, 1(2): 248-52.
20. Temtamy SA et al. A genetic epidemiological study of malformations at birth in Egypt. Eastern Mediterranean health journal, 1998:4(2):252-9.
21. Boisen KA et al. Difference in prevalence of congenital cryptorchidism in infants between two Nordic countries. Lancet, 2004, 363(9417):1264-9.
22. Onuora VC, Evbuomwan I. Abnormal findings associated with undescended testis in Nigerian children. Indian journal of pediatrics, 1989, 56(4):509-11.
23. Belloli G et al. Il varicocele in eta pediatrico-adolescenziale ed altre anomalie testicolari: studio epidemiologico [Varicocele in childhood and other testicular anomalies: an epidemiological study]. La Pediatria medica e chirurgica, 1993, 15(2):59-62.
24. Gioffre L et al. Indagine epidemiologica sulle patologie ed anomalie nella sfera genitale esterna maschile [Epidemiological study on pathology and abnormalities of the external male genitalia]. Il Giornale di chirurgia, 2002, 23(4):125-8.
25. Stavropoulos NE et al. Varicocele in schoolboys. Archives of andrology, 2002, 48(3):187-92.
26. Niedzielski J, Paduch D, Raczynski P. Assessment of adolescent varicocele. Pediatric surgery international, 1997, 12(5-6): 410-3.