Fertility prospects for children with cryptorchidism
P. E. Gilhooly, F. Meyers and J. K. Lattimer
One hundred forty-five men had undergone surgical correction of cryptorchid
testes between 1936 and 1968. Eighty percent of 100 patients with
unilateral cryptorchidism and 35% (16/45) of patients with bilateral
cryptorchidism had reported fertility after 12 or more years of follow-up.
There was no significant difference between the fertility rates of patients
treated with or without preoperative human chorionic gonadotropin. These
data serve to challenge other published series and the popular assumption
that there is an inherent bilateral testicular defect in most patients with
unilateral cryptorchidism.
