Undescended Testicle Operated with Orchiopexy Surgery: A Case Report
Mayur Wanjari *
Department of Community Health Nursing, Smt. Radhikabai Meghe Memorial College of Nursing, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi (M) Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
Pratibha Wankhede
Department of Community Health Nursing, Smt. Radhikabai Meghe Memorial College of Nursing, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi (M) Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
Deeplata Mendhe
Department of Community Health Nursing, Smt. Radhikabai Meghe Memorial College of Nursing, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi (M) Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
Sagar Alwadkar
Department of Community Health Nursing, Smt. Radhikabai Meghe Memorial College of Nursing, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi (M) Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
Hina Rodge
Department of Child Health Nursing, Smt. Radhikabai Meghe Memorial College of Nursing, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Sawangi (M) Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The testicles develop in the abdomen while a male baby is still in the uterus. Before birth, the testicles typically drop from inside the abdomen down into the scrotum. The scrotum is the sack of skin hanging behind the penis where the testicles are housed.
Undescended testicles fail to drop into the scrotum before birth or in the first few months of life. The condition is also called cryptorchidism.
Here we discussed, A 15 Years old male child was brought to Acharya Vinobha Bhave Rural Hospital with a complaint of undescended testis and is brought for surgical management. The history of previous illness as narrated by the father the child was born with an undescended testis on the right side.
Keywords: Testicles, uterus, scrotum, undescended testicles, cryptorchidism