What are the effects of pediatric undescended testicle surgery?

The cryptorchid surgery for children is actually a method of treating cryptorchidism. Because now in many clinical cases, there are children suffering from cryptorchidism. If it cannot be treated in time, it will affect the normal descent of his testicles, and naturally it will have a certain impact on the child's future growth and sexual function. So let us take a closer look at some issues of cryptorchid surgery.

Cryptorchidism is also known as "undescended testicles". It may be that one or both testicles do not descend normally into the scrotum. Strictly speaking, this is also a deformity. The occurrence of unilateral cryptorchidism is mostly due to the testicle encountering an obstacle during its descent, taking a detour and staying in the abdominal cavity or inguinal canal, or staying above the scrotum. Bilateral cryptorchidism is mostly caused by insufficient secretion of human chorionic gonadotropin in the body, which affects the normal physiological process of testicular descent. Although the testicles of some children have descended into the scrotum, when they lie flat, the testicles that were previously touched can no longer be felt. This situation is not true cryptorchidism, but is called "free cryptorchidism."

The scrotum of children with cryptorchidism is small and the testicles cannot be felt inside the scrotum, so diagnosis is not difficult. But cryptorchidism is indeed a terrible disease. This is because the testicles that have not descended into the scrotum are in the relatively high temperature abdominal cavity, which prevents the testicles from developing normally. If the testicles of a child over the age of 10 still remain in the abdominal cavity, their testicles have mostly lost the ability to produce sperm. Therefore, if a child has bilateral cryptorchidism, he or she will suffer from lifelong infertility. If the testicles stay in the inguinal canal or above the scrotum, in addition to the high local temperature being unsuitable for testicular growth, they are also susceptible to external impacts and may cause accidents.

The testicles are located in the abdominal cavity during embryonic development and gradually move downward as the fetus develops. Under normal circumstances, the testicles will have descended to the internal inguinal ring when the fetus is 4-6 months old, and will have descended into the scrotum when the fetus is 7-9 months old. Therefore, after a baby boy is born, two testicles can be felt in the scrotum. However, during the descent process, some babies may have one or both testicles that do not completely descend into the scrotum, but instead stay halfway, most commonly in the inguinal canal at the groin, the external inguinal ring, or the abdominal cavity. For some babies, the testicles do not descend into the scrotum until they are 7-9 months old.

I hope that every parent can pay attention to whether their children are affected by some adverse factors, such as cryptorchidism or other scrotal conditions, when taking care of them. Only by discovering and treating them as early as possible can we effectively reduce this problem and the adverse effects and harm it brings to children.