Testicular maldescent and infertility

Abstract

Testicular maldescent is one of the causes of male infertility. This paper illustrates that it was possible to determine that this pathology was present in 8.96% of the cases in 212 men who consulted for infertility at our service during 1987. When we compared clinical, hormonal and seminal studies with infertile subjects without testicular maldescent and with a group of 20 fertile patients, statistically significant differences were established, suggesting a poorer prognosis of fertility to the group with maldescent testes.