Question

The caregiver of a 1-year-old son calls the nurse, upset that his wife has just told him that their son is being given a hormone. His wife says that the pediatrician called it human chorionic gonadotropic hormone but that is all she understood. The nurse most accurately clarifies the caregiver's question by making which of the following statements regarding the son's treatment?
"The doctor is hoping that the hormone will cause your son's undropped testes to move into their proper place."

Answer 1

The correct answer is "The doctor is hoping that the hormone will cause your son's undropped testes to move into their proper place."

Before or soon after birth, the male gonads (testes) descend from the abdominal cavity into their normal position in the scrotum. Occasionally one or both of the testes do not descend, which is a condition called cryptorchidism.