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Few topics have been submitted to so many controversies and different diagnostic and therapeutic attitudes as the non-descended testicle, which is probably due to the fact that we still don’t know the true causes and mechanisms that condition this phenomenon of lack of development and descent of the testicle.  Simultaneously, with the development of male genitals, the testicles go through a process of migration, first inside the abdomen and later inguinal, for arriving at the scrotum, during the first weeks of development.  This migration is necessary, since the later development of spermatozoids requires a temperature at least one degree below the abdominal temperature.  This migration process is influenced by testosterone.

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