title: Use of laparoscopy in children with impalpable testes.
abstract: Our experience in Manchester using laparoscopy in children with impalpable testes is detailed. Eighty-seven testes were investigated in 77 patients. Of these, 36% had no testes, although in 28% evidence of a vas was found. In those testes which were found, surgery was performed, either orchidopexy or, if positioned high, microsurgery. Orchidectomy was rarely carried out (5 testes only).
authors.affiliation: Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Blackley, Manchester, U.K.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Doig
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003456:Cryptorchidism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006059:Gonadal Dysgenesis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D013737:Testis / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology