Triorchidism at orchidopexy: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Polyorchidism is defined as the presence of more than two testes. The management of this rare condition is still debatable, particularly when it is an incidental finding at surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of an 8-year-old boy with triorchidism found incidentally during...

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Autores principales: Athwal, Sharan, Tailor, Jignesh, Lakhoo, Kokila
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2507719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18657267
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-247
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description INTRODUCTION: Polyorchidism is defined as the presence of more than two testes. The management of this rare condition is still debatable, particularly when it is an incidental finding at surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of an 8-year-old boy with triorchidism found incidentally during an elective orchidopexy. This supernumerary, ectopic and atrophic testis was removed to avoid an increased risk of malignancy. CONCLUSION: Risk of malignancy justifies the removal of an atrophic and ectopic testis in triorchidism. However, it would appear safe to preserve a viable intrascrotal supernumerary testis found incidentally at surgery provided that the patient is followed up in the long term.
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spelling pubmed-25077192008-08-12 Triorchidism at orchidopexy: a case report Athwal, Sharan Tailor, Jignesh Lakhoo, Kokila J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Polyorchidism is defined as the presence of more than two testes. The management of this rare condition is still debatable, particularly when it is an incidental finding at surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of an 8-year-old boy with triorchidism found incidentally during an elective orchidopexy. This supernumerary, ectopic and atrophic testis was removed to avoid an increased risk of malignancy. CONCLUSION: Risk of malignancy justifies the removal of an atrophic and ectopic testis in triorchidism. However, it would appear safe to preserve a viable intrascrotal supernumerary testis found incidentally at surgery provided that the patient is followed up in the long term. BioMed Central 2008-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2507719/ /pubmed/18657267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-247 Text en Copyright © 2008 Athwal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Triorchidism at orchidopexy: a case report
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title_short Triorchidism at orchidopexy: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2507719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18657267
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-247
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