- Testicle torsion. If this happens occurs blood supply disturbance of a testicle occurs; a persons feels sharp pain, and the testicle dies within 8 hours. This may happen with healthy people, but it happens with ones who suffer cryptorhism more often.
- Not seldom cryptorhism is combined with congenital anomalies, for instance hernias, (which can strangulate and cause danger for a child's life) hypospadias.
- Sterility. 70% of those who have suffered bilateral cryptorhism are sterile. Abnormal location of a testicle leads to disturbance of its thermal conditions and blood supply, and traumatizations; an all this contributes to emergence of dystrophic processes and spermatogenesis disturbance
- Testicle cancer is to be found 12 times as much, when a person suffers cryptorhism. This is connected with increased temperature conditions in an abdominal cavity. Therefore in testicle tissues, that are unsuitable for such conditions, mutations occur more often.
Treatment is definitely individual, and can be both conservative and surgical.
Conservative treatment implies prescription of vitamin therapy, hormonal agents, which can promote going down of a testicle to a scrotum.
Surgical treatment. Operation is carried out under general anesthesia. An incision of 1.5 - 2.5 cm is made in an inguinal area. The essence of the operation is finding of an undescended testicle. The spermatic cord and blood vessels are exposed carefully from surrounding tissues, the testicle is lowered and fixes in a scrotum.
In the majority of cases the prognosis is favourable.
Cryptorhism
How can cryptorhism be revealed?
What is the danger of cryptorhism?
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