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Testicular Volume in a Cohort of Prepubertal Indian Children.

Mahmood D Al-Mendalawi1.   

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Year:  2020        PMID: 32139997      PMCID: PMC7020685          DOI: 10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_97_19

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg        ISSN: 0971-9261


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Sir, I read with interest the distinguished study by Srinivas et al.[1] published in the July–September 2019 issue of the Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons. The authors generated age-specific nomogram of the testicular volume with centiles and standard deviations to Indian children up to 8 years of age.[1] Based on the following methodological limitation, I assume that the clinical implication of that constructed nomogram must be exercised cautiously. It is explicit that there are ethnic differences in testicular size.[2] India is a country with a unique admixture of different ethnicities. The authors did not address, in the study methodology, the ethnic standards of the studied pediatric population.[1] Hence, I assume that age- and ethnicity-specific normative values of the testis size ought to be formulated. Despite the aforementioned limitation, the constructed reference values represent a useful tool in assessing testicular health in pediatric clinical settings and researches.

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1.  Ethnic differences. Variation in human testis size.

Authors:  J M Diamond
Journal:  Nature       Date:  1986 Apr 10-16       Impact factor: 49.962

2.  Testicular Volume in a Cohort of Prepubertal Indian Children.

Authors:  Rohith Srinivas; Reju Joseph Thomas; Tunny Sebastian; Jujju Jacob Kurian
Journal:  J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg       Date:  2019 Jul-Sep
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