ANATOMICAL AND CLINICAL CORRELATION WITH HISTOLOGICAL AND HISTOMETRICPATTERNS IN CRYPTORCHIDISM

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.