DESCENT OF TESTIS
DESCENT OF TESTIS
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DOI:
10.1136/adc.39.208.605
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发表时间:
1964-01-01
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
SCORER, CG
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作者:
SCORER, CG
This study is based on observations made on boys at birth, during infancy, and throughout early childhood. Its purpose was to find out how often the testes were in the scrotum at birth and what happened in later years to those that were not. An analysis of the position of the testes was made in over 3,500 infant boys at birth. Those in whom one or both testes were not in the scrotum at the age of 1 month were followed up. To this number a further 40 cases of failure of descent in early infancy have been added in order to obtain, as nearly as possible, a true incidenceof the various types of failure.Criteria of Descent At birth in the full-termbaby boy the testis is usually lying in the scrotum at a distance of between 5 and 8 cm. from the pubic crest. The position varies with the state of contraction or relaxation of the scrotum, but a gentle pull brings the testis down to 7 or 8 cm. The measurement is taken from the upper anterior edge of the pubic bone to the centre of the testis. Sometimes the testis is found to be lying in the groin simply because the scrotum is contracted; by manipulation, it can be drawn into the scrotum and distally for a few centimetres. The cremasteric reflex has not developed at birth and, in attempting to elicit it, the most that can be achieved is a momentaryflick upwards of the testis. For this reason if the testis is descended there is no doubt about it.