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Urology (Expert Forum)
Re: BORN WITHOUT TESTICALS
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Re: BORN WITHOUT TESTICALS
by anonymous-user__0, Jan 01, 1995 12:00AM
Subject: Re: BORN WITHOUT TESTICALS
Forum: The Urology Forum
MY NEPHEW WAS BORN WITHOUT TESTICALS. X-RAYS WERE DONE AND ONE WAS FOUND ON THE RIGHT SIDE BUT IT WAS ATROPHIED. THERE WAS NO SIGN OF A UTERUS AND CHROMOSOME TESTS SHOW 46 XY, SO HE IS MALE. HE IS FIVE YEARS OLD AND HIS PENIS IS UNDERSIZED FOR HIS AGE. MY QUESTION IS, HOW COMMON IS THIS OCCURRENCE AND CAN ANYTHING MEDICALLY BE DONE ABOUT IT?
I'm not the doctor, so keep checking back for their response.
Your nephew has an undescended testicle (or two), and that is not particularly uncommon. In spite of it being atrophied, I think it
should be brought down.
He MIGHT have another testicle hidden, but then again, he might
not. This condition is much rarer, but it does not mean that he
is of ambiguous gender. It is just one of those things. I beleive
that it is called anorchidism.
Follow Ups:
BORN WITHOUT TESTICALS a concerned reader 3/27/1999
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