A Follow-up Study of Surgically Treated Cryptorchid Patients

A group of 112 adult patients were traced who had had childhood orchiopexies at an average age of 9 yr at two childrens' hospitals. Sixty-seven per cent of all married patients had sired children although only 44% of the married bilateral cryptorchid patients had done so. The percentage paternity of the unilaterally cryptorchid patients was normal when compared with the general population. There appeared to be no difference in the eventual results of the two types of orchiopexy performed on this series of patients.