cryptorchid

The mothers of these cryptorchid boys tended to be possessive and regarded them as inadequate.

Less than five percent of cryptorchid testes.

Most cryptorchid cats present with an inguinal testicle.

In a more complex situation such as castration of cryptorchid animals, the inguinal canal is more easily accessed.

Castration of the undescended teste(s) should be considered for cryptorchid dogs due to the high rate of testicular cancer, especially sertoli cell tumors.

However, about 80% of cryptorchid testes descend by the first year of life (the majority within three months), making the true incidence of cryptorchidism around 1% overall.

Testicular tumors and testicular torsion are rare in cryptorchid cats, but castration is usually performed due to unwanted behavior such as urine spraying.

Some authorities have described a technique for the removal of abdominally retained testes from cryptorchid animals, but most surgeons still advocate a recumbent technique, as described below.

This research also suffers from serious methodological problems: major variables are completely uncontrolled, such as the small physical stature of many cryptorchid boys, and the psychological effects of corrective surgery.

In another case study, a cryptorchid man in his twenties had successful surgery: his operation unleashed a wave of adolescent male strivings, as though the testicles represented "the masculine resources he always had within himself if he only had the courage to express and assert them."