Abstract
During the past 29 years from 1962 to 1990, 222 cases of undescended testes were operated upon in our department. The ratio of right to left undescended testes was 1.15:1, and 18% were bilateral. Associated diseases were found in 22% of the patients, more than half of which were inguinal hernias. The volumes of the undescended testes were compared to those on the unaffected side of patients with unilateral inguinal hernias. The undescended testes were found to be significantly smaller than those of the controls in all age groups. Furthermore, the volumes of the scrotal testes also became significantly smaller than the controls in patients older than 5 years. These results suggest poor postnatal development of undescended and scrotal testes.
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