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PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF TREATMENT

HUGH CABOT, M.D.; REED M. NESBIT, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1931;22(5):850-856.

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Undescended testis is a condition frequently seen by the surgeon, especially the genito-urinary surgeon. As the condition is generally noted early in life by anxious parents, the patients are soon brought for expert opinion and advice, a fortunate occurrence, as practically all such afflicted children are thus seen by the medical profession early enough to escape permanent testicular damage incident on long delay in surgical correction.

Observers have differed regarding the incidence of this condition. Marshall¹ of Edinburgh, on examining recruits for the British and conscripts for the French armies, reported in 1828 an incidence of 1.02 per cent among 10,800 men examined. Zeibert,² 1898, reported an incidence of 0.2 per cent in 6,962,543 examined in the Austrian army between 1870 and 1882. Bevan³ estimated the incidence at 1 in 500. The United States War Department⁴ reported 3.1 per thousand men examined for the draft, or . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ANN ARBOR, MICH.

From the Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, July 7, 1930.

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