Eur J Pediatr Surg 2016; 26(05): 432-435
DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1592195
Review Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Comments to Recent Guidelines on Undescended Testis

Balazs Kutasy
1   Department of Pediatric Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
,
Joergen M. Thorup
2   Department of Pediatric Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
,
Tomas Wester
1   Department of Pediatric Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
› Author Affiliations
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Publication History

29 July 2016

02 August 2016

Publication Date:
15 September 2016 (online)

Abstract

During the past couple of decades, our understanding of the treatment of undescended testis (UDT) has hugely expanded and it is still dynamically changing: new diagnostic tools are available, and experimental procedures are becoming a real-life treatment options. Our community needs to continuously update our guidelines. It is also our responsibility to build up, not a uniform, but a patient-oriented guideline which can provide information for both primary care providers and pediatric surgeons. Here, in Europe, we endeavor to change the different national guidelines to one common European pediatric surgical guideline in the treatment of UDT.