Bilateral Impalpable Testes A Special Entity of Cryptorchidism英文文献资料.docVIP

Surgical Science, 2012, 3, 457-459 /10.4236/ss.2012.39090 Published Online September 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ss) Bilateral Impalpable Testes: A Special Entity of Cryptorchidism Tariq Abbas, Ahmed Hayati, Mansour Ali Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar Email: tariq2c@, ahayati@.qa, mali31@.qa Received July 24, 2012; revised August 25, 2012; accepted September 10, 2012 ABSTRACT Background: Cryptorchidism is one of the most common genitourinary disorders in young boys. About 1% - 2% of boys at age of 1 year have an undescended testis (UDT); this disorder is unilateral in about 90% of individuals and bilateral in about 10%. However, bilateral impalpable testes represent a special category that should be differentiated from anorchidism as well as male pseudohermaphroditism. We investigated whether bilateral impalpable testes with its inherent hormonal and genetic factors has different outcomes in terms of success of orchiopexies compared to unilateral impalpable testes. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the demographic and clinical findings, as well as immediate and 6 month outcomes, in patients diagnosed with bilateral impalpable undescended testes between 2006 and 2010. Findings were reported after a minimum of 6 months from the last surgical intervention. Results: Nine patients underwent laparoscopy for bilateral impalpable testes, 7 of whom had testes in the region of the internal inguinal ring. The success rate after laparoscopic exploration and open orchiopexy was 60% while the success rate with unilateral impalpable testes was 63.3% in the same study. Conclusion: Although laparoscopy is extremely useful in both the diagnosis and treatment of patients with bilateral impalpable testes, laparoscopy should be preceded by careful cytogenetic and hormonal workup for this particular group of patients. We found that the success rates of laparoscopic management of bilateral and un