A. Gutierrez et al., ANATOMICAL AND CLINICAL CORRELATION WITH HISTOLOGICAL AND HISTOMETRICPATTERNS IN CRYPTORCHIDISM, British Journal of Urology, 72(4), 1993, pp. 506-509
One feature rarely included in studies on cryptorchism is an adequate
correlation between anatomical and clinical data and histological patt
erns of the testis. The present study correlates anatomical and clinic
al data from 50 patients (age range 2 months-14 years) using 4 differe
nt histological and histometric patterns established previously. Three
different patterns of progressively severe histological changes corre
sponding to increasingly marked dysgenetic alterations in the anatomic
al and clinical patterns were detected. Less severe changes were corre
lated with mature anatomical and clinical features, whereas testes sho
wing severe histological-histometric changes were correlated with imma
ture anatomical and clinical features. Non-abdominally located testes
with Sertoli cell hyperplasia were not significantly correlated with a
ny of the anatomical and clinical features. The histometric patterns d
escribed should facilitate the diagnosis of the stage of testicular de
velopment on the basis of anatomical and clinical data.