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East and Central African Journal of Surgery
Association of Surgeons of East Africa and College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa
ISSN: 1024-297X EISSN: 1024-297X
Vol. 21, No. 1, 2016, pp. 164-167
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Bioline Code: js16018
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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East and Central African Journal of Surgery, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2016, pp. 164-167
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A Rare Cause of Acute Abdomen – The Torsioned Intra abdominal Testicular Tumor
seife, Henok & Habteyohhanes, Tadesse
Abstract
Cryptorchidism is a developmental defect in which the testes fail to descend
completely into the scrotum. Isolated cryptorchidism affects 3% of full-term male
newborns. True undescended testis is unilateral in 80% cases. Approximately 70-
77% of cryptorchid testes will spontaneously descend, usually by 3 months of age.
Approximately 10% of testicular tumors arise from undescended testes. The higher
the position of an undescended testis, the greater is the risk for development of
malignancy. Almost half of the tumors that occur in testes are located abdominally,
with 6-fold higher frequency than in an inguinal testis. The most common tumor
that develops from the cryptorchid testis is the seminoma. Complications of intraabdominal
testis such as torsion, rupture and bleeding are rare1.
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