Cryptorchidism

Introduction: Cryptorchidism

Cryptorchidism: Misplaced testes hidden in the abdomen at birth. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Cryptorchidism is available below.

Symptoms of Cryptorchidism

• Misplaced testes hidden in the abdomen
• Missing testicle in male newborn
• See also symptoms of undescended testicle

Medical Textbooks Online about Cryptorchidism

Book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Wrongly Diagnosed with Cryptorchidism?

• Misdiagnosis of Cryptorchidism
• Underlying causes of Cryptorchidism (possibly wrongly diagnosed)

Misdiagnosis and Cryptorchidism

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Food poisoning may actually be an infectious disease: Many people who come down with "stomach symptoms" like diarrhea assume that it's "something I ate" (i.e. food poisoning)....read more »

Mesenteric adenitis misdiagnosed as appendicitis in children: Because appendicitis is one of the more feared conditions for a child with abdominal pain, it can be...read more »

Celiac disease often fails to be diagnosed cause of chronic digestive symptoms: One of the most common chronic digestive conditions is celiac disease, a malabsorption disorder with a variety of symptoms (see symptoms of celiac disease)...read more »

Chronic digestive diseases hard to diagnose: There is an inherent difficulty in diagnosing the various types of chronic digestive diseases. Some of the better known possibilities are peptic ulcer...read more »

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Causes of Cryptorchidism

• Prematurity
• Androgen insensitivity syndrome

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More information about causes of Cryptorchidism:

• Underlying causes of Cryptorchidism
• Cryptorchidism as a complication caused by other conditions
• Cryptorchidism as a symptom

Treatments for Cryptorchidism

• Surgery
• Orchidoplexy
• Surgical removal of testes - if they cannot be corrected; to avoid risk of later testicular cancer
• See also treatments for undescended testicle

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Patient Surveys for Cryptorchidism

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Reseach about Cryptorchidism

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Clinical Trials for Cryptorchidism

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Cryptorchidism include:

• Long-Term Outcome in Congenital Undescended Testis After Surgical Treatment by Orchidopexy - This study is not yet open for patient recruitment (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• The Incidence of Congenital Undescended Testis Among Dutch Infants - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)

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Definitions of Cryptorchidism:

Failure of testes to descend into scrotum. - (Source - Diseases Database)

Failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops - (Source - WordNet 2.1)