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Fertility after the Operation of Cryptorchism in Childhood Cover

Fertility after the Operation of Cryptorchism in Childhood

Open Access
|Jul 2022

Abstract

Cryptorchism is a congenital anomaly of male genitalia, and is defined as a disorder of lowering testicles into the scrotum. In our study, the quality of sperm and fertility of men who were operated from unilateral or bilateral cryptorchism in childhood were analyzed. According to the age in which they were operated, patients were classified into different time groups, subjected to clinical examination and sperm analysis. A normal sperm count was found: 36.9% of the total number of patients operated from unilateral to bilateral cryptorchism. The highest percentage of normal sperm counts was 73.97%: the data which was found in the group that was operated from one-sided cryptorchism to the end of the second year of life. Regardless of the age of the cryptorchism operation, it is possible to expect a disorder of spermatogenesis.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjecr-2019-0030 | Journal eISSN: 2956-2090 | Journal ISSN: 2956-0454
Language: English
Page range: 121 - 125
Submitted on: Dec 20, 2018
Accepted on: Jun 8, 2019
Published on: Jul 11, 2022
Published by: University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Medical Sciences
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2022 Veroljub M. Vucic, published by University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Medical Sciences
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