title: The value of computed tomography in the localization of undescended testes.
abstract: Eight patients with unilateral and four with bilateral (4) unpalpable testes were evaluated with CT for localization. All patients were later submitted to laparascopy and/or surgery and 13 cryptorchid testes and 3 atrophic or agenesic testes were found. CT detected correctly 11 of the cryptorchid testes - (85%) with one false positive and one false negative finding. In the three atrophic or agenesic testes, CT did not identify any image suspicious of being a testis, so there three were no false positive studies here. It is concluded that CT is an accurate noninvasive method for the preoperative detection of cryptorchid testes.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003456:Cryptorchidism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed