Björn Bouwmeester Stjernetun, Catharina Gillsjö, Elzana Odzakovic, Jenny Hallgren
"It´s like walking in a bubble", nursing students´ perspectives on age suit simulation in a home environment - group interviews from reflection seminars
BMC nursing
study aimed investigate rate reascent requiring reoperation primary orchidopexy investigate eventual differences inguinal scrotal approach well potential predictors reascent retrospective cohort study children treated undescended testis udt orchidopexy 2018 2022 conducted primary outcome reascent requiring reoperation secondary outcome atrophy rate independent variables age underlying conditions side surgical approach operation time bilaterality congenitalascended udt presence scrotal hypoplasia presence patent processus vaginalis division external oblique suture testis univariate logistic regression used evaluate differences groups risk reascent total 662 testes 554 patients included reoperation occurred 6 7 inguinal approach 3 scrotal approach p 004 reoperation associated younger age congenital udt inguinal approach neither variables remained significant multivariate analyses atrophy occurred one testis rate reascent 6 atrophy rate 015 larger study may find predictors reascent low absolute risk lower rate reascent scrotal approach probably due selection bias