Approach to the cryptorchid cat

RE: Approach to the cryptorchid cat

Clive Ansell — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:47:54 GMT

+1 for going straight to surgery with this. Always managed to locate the hidden testicle by finding the vas where it loops over the ureter and following back. Most seem to get stuck in the inguinal canal. Never failed to find one, and no harder than a cat spay really.

RE: Approach to the cryptorchid cat

Thomas Johnson — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:16:39 GMT

[quote user="Evelyn Barbour-Hill"]

[quote user="Thomas Johnson"]I just wondered what approaches other people were taking to cryptorchid cats.[/quote]

Same as you.

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Glad to hear that! Thank you to all who replied. I read the previous history before I saw the cat and thought their recommendations were a bit crazy, but then I had a niggle at the back of my mind that maybe this was something I should be considering!

RE: Approach to the cryptorchid cat

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 16:25:55 GMT

[quote user="Thomas Johnson"]I just wondered what approaches other people were taking to cryptorchid cats.[/quote]

Same as you.

[quote user="Anthony Todd"]If you grasp the descended testicle and pull on it if you're lucky, and if you are doing an ex-lap you will get a good idea of where the cord is including the other one....[/quote]

Useful tip.

RE: Approach to the cryptorchid cat

Nicola Cole — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:00:32 GMT

Yep same as others above. I just have a good palpation under GA to double check not inguinal then straight to ex lap if not.

RE: Approach to the cryptorchid cat

Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 21:57:27 GMT

We charge it as an in season/pregnant cat spay so still under £100. I've found them simple and very easy. Done midline. Guessing some local genetic freak as we had a run of them, I guess I'll have seen maybe a dozen cryptorchid cats. All but one were abdominal. One belonged to our retired receptionist.

RE: Approach to the cryptorchid cat

Jill Butterworth — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 20:48:34 GMT

I haven't done many, compared to dogs, but do remember one that had the merest sliver of testicular tissue hiding along the ductus deferens.

RE: Approach to the cryptorchid cat

Anthony Todd — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 20:27:52 GMT

[quote user="Thomas Johnson"]I just wondered what approaches other people were taking to cryptorchid cats.[/quote]

PS!! this was always in cats AFAIK

Critical thing is not to remove the descended testicle unless you can find the other one as if you do it maes finding the missing one much harder.

If you grasp the descended testicle and pull on it if you're lucky, and if you are doing an ex-lap you will get a good idea of where the cord is including the other one....

Also just pulling on the scrotum often shows the missing testicle in the inguinal ring as the gubernaculum is still attached to the undescended one as well as the descended one.

That's what some dinovet taught me anyway, so try it!

RE: Approach to the cryptorchid cat

Sarah Keir — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:34:30 GMT

I love to stick the ultrasound probe on everything I can but this is one case I would not bother and would be hard pushed to see a normal cat testicle. The diagnostic imaging is not going to remove the testicle so I just open up and look - they tend to stuck in the inguinal ring in cats (n=2, my experience).

RE: Approach to the cryptorchid cat

Joyce Whitehead — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:09:33 GMT

Same as you! We don’t have access to laparoscopic surgery anyway but it does seem excessive for the type of surgery.