title: [Is necessary to practice orchiectomy in patients with post-puberal maldescended testes?].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The cryptorchidism is a risk factor for testicular cancer and is associated with cancer in the contraleteral testicle. The mechanism that leads to an increased risk of causes in a cryptorchid testis is unclear.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed 25 patients of 20-years old for maldescended testicles we practiced orchiectomy in 22 testicles and orchiopexy in 7 testicles. The time patients had the testicles in an anomalous location were between 20-51 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The elder patients with maldescends testicles came because the couldn't feel the testicle in the scrotum and the 16% of them because of infertility. Only 1 of 25 cases (4%) were demonstrated cancer with pure seminoma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the following up of the patients none of them presented contralateral testicle cancer between 5-10 years. The patients who were practiced the orchiopexy no-one presented testicular cancer between 5-11 years.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Hospital General de Enfermedades Zona 9, Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social, Guatemala.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Granados Loarca
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Esau Ortega
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003456:Cryptorchidism / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009919:Orchiectomy; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies