Potential Complications With the Prescrotal Approach for the Palpable Undescended Testis? A Comparison of Single Prescrotal Incision to the Traditional Inguinal Approach

Journal of Urology

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 686-689

  Al Mandil, Majid ^a   Khoury, Antoine E ^a   El Hout, Yaser ^a   Kogon, Michael ^a   Dave, Sumit ^a   Farhat, Walid A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

cryptorchidism; postoperative complications; testis; urogenital surgical procedures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; FOLLOW UP; HERNIA; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OPERATION DURATION; ORCHIDOPEXY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL RISK; TESTIS ATROPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTORCHIDISM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INGUINAL CANAL; MALE; PALPATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCROTUM; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 46449111358     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.04.040     Document Type: Article

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