title: Comments to Recent Guidelines on Undescended Testis.
abstract: During the past couple of decades, our understanding of the treatment of undescended testis (UDT) has hugely expanded and it is still dynamically changing: new diagnostic tools are available, and experimental procedures are becoming a real-life treatment options. Our community needs to continuously update our guidelines. It is also our responsibility to build up, not a uniform, but a patient-oriented guideline which can provide information for both primary care providers and pediatric surgeons. Here, in Europe, we endeavor to change the different national guidelines to one common European pediatric surgical guideline in the treatment of UDT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Balazs
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kutasy
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Joergen M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Thorup
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Tomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wester
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003456:Cryptorchidism / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D056126:Orchiopexy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010372:Pediatrics; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care