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maldescent

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maldescent
faulty descent of the testicle into the scrotum.


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For some participants, biomonitoring was conducted a long time after the relevant prenatal exposure window for testicular maldescent.
The 2 most common anomalies associated with polyorchidism are maldescent (40%) of either the supernumerary testis or the ipsilateral (more normal) testis and indirect inguinal hernia (30%).
Maldescent during early embryologic development may also leave aberrant thyroid and parathyroid tissues within a normally placed mediastinal thymus.
 
 
 
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