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1005763 
Journal Article 
The descent of the testis 
Scorer, CG 
1964 
Yes 
Archives of Disease in Childhood
ISSN: 0003-9888
EISSN: 1468-2044 
39 
208 
605-609 
English 
14230757 
This study is based on observations made on boys at birth, during infancy, and throughout early childhood. Its purpose was to find out how often the testes were in the scrotum at birth and what happened
in later years to those that were not. An analysis of the position of the testes was made in over 3,500 infant boys at birth. Those in whom
one or both testes were not in the scrotum at the age of 1 month were followed up. To this number a further 40 cases of failure of descent in early infancy have been added in order to obtain, as nearly as
possible, a true incidence of the various types of failure.