Prevalence of undescended testes in a group of deceased adults at the University Teaching Hospital,in Lusaka: a postmortem based study
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Mulenga, Evans
Abstract
This study aimed at establishing the prevalence of undescended testes (UDT) among deceased males, 18 years of age and older, formerly resident in Lusaka. During a 6 month period in 2014, 384 deceased men aged between 18 and 94 years were examined. One out of the 384 candidates had right-sided unilateral UDT. The subject with the UDT was 40 years of age. The mean age at death of the examined material was 39 years. At 95 % confidence internal, the UDT point prevalence of 0.26 % was obtained. The findings of this applied anatomy research strongly suggests that UDT in deceased adults at UTH is low.
