One third of patients with a unilateral palpable undescended testis have a contralateral patent processus

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1711-1715

  Aggarwal, Himanshu ^a   Kogan, Barry A ^a,b   Feustel, Paul J ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Urological Institute of Northeastern New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Inguinal hernia; Processus vaginalis; Undescended testis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CRYPTORCHISM; CYSTOSCOPE; FEEDING APPARATUS; HERNIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INGUINAL CANAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORCHIDOPEXY; PATENT PROCESSUS VAGINALIS; PERITONEUM; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTORCHIDISM; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; ORCHIOPEXY; PERITONEUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84866252560     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: 15315037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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