Donaldson K M, Tong S Y, Hutson J M
F. Douglas Stephens Surgical Research Laboratory, Department of General Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Indian J Pediatr. 1996 Nov-Dec;63(6):725-9. doi: 10.1007/BF02730917.
To diagnose the incidence of orchidopexy versus age over a 15-year period, a study was conducted of all patients discharged from a single institution for orchidopexy with reference to age during operation. The hypothesis drawn was that some boys have acquired UDT and therefore, will present late despite recommendations for early diagnosis and treatment. The study was conducted on patients from Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne (1980-94). The results suggested that while the optimal age for management of congenital UDT has been lowered to one to two years of age by under-graduate education, the persistence of a significant number of older children undergoing surgery suggests that some UDT's are acquired. It also showed that the proportion of orchidopexies performed in infancy increased over the 15-year period while the proportion performed in late childhood remained constant.
为了诊断15年间睾丸固定术发生率与年龄的关系，对一家机构所有因睾丸固定术出院的患者进行了一项关于手术时年龄的研究。得出的假设是，一些男孩已患上隐睾症，因此，尽管有早期诊断和治疗的建议，他们仍会延迟就诊。该研究针对墨尔本皇家儿童医院（1980 - 1994年）的患者进行。结果表明，虽然通过本科教育，先天性隐睾症的最佳治疗年龄已降至1至2岁，但仍有大量大龄儿童接受手术，这表明一些隐睾症是后天获得的。研究还表明，在这15年期间，婴儿期进行睾丸固定术的比例有所增加，而儿童晚期进行手术的比例保持不变。
