caa a22 4500 46577167X CHVBK 20180323111930.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00179629 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00179629 The ascending testis [Elektronische Daten] [E. Fenton, A. Woodward, I. Hudson, I. Marschner] This study relates the timing and incidence of orchidopexy to possible ascent of the testis. During 1985, 341 patients underwent surgery for undescended testes at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. In 85 (25%), surgery was performed before 2 years of age. The number of children managed surgically over the age of 2 years is high (75%) despite our surgical policy to perform orchidopexy at 2 years of age. Statistical analysis shows a bimodal distribution for age at the time of surgery for undescended testis, with 16% of the orchidopexy population in the older age group. It also demonstrates that the overall orchidopexy rate of 2.6% is three times the expected incidence of undescended testes at 1 year of age. Possible explanations for these observations include: (1) the diagnosis and referral of undescended testis is being made late; (2) surgery is being performed on retractile testes; or (3) some later presenting undescended testes are acquired, the so-called ascending testes. Springer-Verlag, 1990 Undescended testis nationallicence Ascending testis nationallicence Orchidopexy nationallicence Fenton E. Department of General Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville Victoria, 3052, Melbourne, Australia aut Woodward A. Department of General Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville Victoria, 3052, Melbourne, Australia aut Hudson I. Department of Biostatistics, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville Victoria, 3052, Melbourne, Australia aut Marschner I. Department of Biostatistics, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville Victoria, 3052, Melbourne, Australia aut Pediatric Surgery International Springer-Verlag 5/1(1990-01-01), 6-9 0179-0358 5:1<6 1990 5 383 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00179629 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00179629 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fenton E. Department of General Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville Victoria, 3052, Melbourne, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Woodward A. Department of General Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville Victoria, 3052, Melbourne, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hudson I. Department of Biostatistics, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville Victoria, 3052, Melbourne, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marschner I. Department of Biostatistics, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville Victoria, 3052, Melbourne, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Pediatric Surgery International Springer-Verlag 5/1(1990-01-01), 6-9 0179-0358 5:1<6 1990 5 383 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer