Your scars are most likely from a previous bilateral open orchidopexy. Surgery for undescended testicles is recommended for boys between 6 and 12 months old. In 1988 a year after you were born the treatment for undescended testicles was an "open" orchidopexy which was performed through an incision in the groin. If both testicles were undescended then it was a bilateral open orchidopexy which would result in bilateral scars in your groin area that would eventually look similar to stretch marks. This surgery is important to preserve a boy's potential fertility because a testicle needs the cooler temperature of the scrotum in order to make sperm. Testicles which remain undescended after the first year of life have impaired fertility potential which becomes worse with time.
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