The testes begin to develop in a boy's abdomen near his kidneys whilst he is a fetus. Before he is born they travel down the abdomen, through the groin and into the scrotum or bag behind his penis.

Undescended testis is commonly found in newborn boys and usually normalizes spontaneously by the age of six months. In one in a hundred boys, however, at least one testis remains undescended—a ...

When an otherwise healthy 16-year-old male leaned over trying to retrieve a golf ball, he suddenly developed pain in his lower left abdomen and then soon noticed that something was missing in his left ...

In about one-third of premature and approximately 3 percent of full-term male infants, one or both of the testicles have not completely descended by the time the child is born. The scrotum appears ...

The results suggested that early prolonged hormonal therapy is advisable in all patients with cryptorchidism to increase the speed of testicular descent to the scrotum achieved by surgery, and thereby ...