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Cryptorchidism is the most frequent disorder of an endocrine gland. From the data available in various publications, premature males have an incidence of 9.22% while full-term boys have cryptorchidism in 5.83% of cases [1]. After 1 year, out of 88,526 patients only 1.82% had undescended testes [1]. The percentage re mained the same until puberty [1]. Scorer and Farrington, however, found 30% cryptorchidism in premature babies and 3.4% in full-term newborns [2]. At the end of 12 months, 28 out of 3,612 babies still had cryptorchidism, an incidence of 0.8% [2]. These findings underline that, after the 1st year, spontaneous descent is unlikely to occur.
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Hadžiselimović, F. (1983). Examinations and Clinical Findings in Cryptorchid Boys. In: Cryptorchidism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86020-1_8
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