The efficacy of adult orchidopexy as a treatment of male infertility: our experience of 20 cases.
The objective of this study was to determine whether adult orchidopexy and testicular sperm extraction are effective or not as a treatment of infertility. In this study, we could not show the efficacy of orchidopexy as a treatment of infertility in adulthood, and testicular sperm extraction can be a useful treatment for adult patients with unilateral undescended testis.
Division of Urology, Department of Surgery Related, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Koji
K
Chiba
Division of Urology, Department of Surgery Related, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan. Electronic address: iskwtmmt@med.kobe-u.ac.jp.
Tomomoto
T
Ishikawa
Division of Urology, Department of Surgery Related, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Kohei
K
Yamaguchi
Division of Urology, Department of Surgery Related, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Masato
M
Fujisawa
D000328:Adult; D003456:Cryptorchidism / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size; D011247:Pregnancy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013081:Sperm Motility; D053625:Sperm Retrieval; D013737:Testis / Q000473:pathology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D013521:Urologic Surgical Procedures, Male / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult
D012739:Gonadal Steroid Hormones