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Isolated unilateral duplication of vas deferens, a surgical enigma: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Duplication of vas deferens is a very rare congenital anomaly with only a few cases reported in the literature. Injury to vas deferens is a recognized complication during hernia surgery and the possibilities of injury may increase with lack of awareness of this anomaly. CASE REPORT: A-31...

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Autores principales: Chintamani, Khandelwal, Rohan, Tandon, Megha, Kumar, Yashwant
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-167
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author Chintamani
Khandelwal, Rohan
Tandon, Megha
Kumar, Yashwant
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description BACKGROUND: Duplication of vas deferens is a very rare congenital anomaly with only a few cases reported in the literature. Injury to vas deferens is a recognized complication during hernia surgery and the possibilities of injury may increase with lack of awareness of this anomaly. CASE REPORT: A-31-year old gentleman with unilateral duplication of vas deferens that was diagnosed during right sided open hernia surgery is reported. The patient had undergone surgery for left inguinal hernia one year previously at the same center and no such anomaly was detected. During intra-operative examination of scrotum, the testes and epididymis were found to be normal. Patient had an uneventful recovery from hernia surgery. CONCLUSION: Unilateral duplication of vas deferens is rare. The identification of this anomaly is essential in order to minimize the incidence of injury to vas during hernia surgery. This case reinforces the importance of routine identification of vas deferens and awareness about this anomaly during inguinal hernia surgery.
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spelling pubmed-27831232009-11-28 Isolated unilateral duplication of vas deferens, a surgical enigma: a case report and review of the literature Chintamani Khandelwal, Rohan Tandon, Megha Kumar, Yashwant Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Duplication of vas deferens is a very rare congenital anomaly with only a few cases reported in the literature. Injury to vas deferens is a recognized complication during hernia surgery and the possibilities of injury may increase with lack of awareness of this anomaly. CASE REPORT: A-31-year old gentleman with unilateral duplication of vas deferens that was diagnosed during right sided open hernia surgery is reported. The patient had undergone surgery for left inguinal hernia one year previously at the same center and no such anomaly was detected. During intra-operative examination of scrotum, the testes and epididymis were found to be normal. Patient had an uneventful recovery from hernia surgery. CONCLUSION: Unilateral duplication of vas deferens is rare. The identification of this anomaly is essential in order to minimize the incidence of injury to vas during hernia surgery. This case reinforces the importance of routine identification of vas deferens and awareness about this anomaly during inguinal hernia surgery. BioMed Central 2009-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2783123/ /pubmed/19946478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-167 Text en Copyright ©2009 Chintamani 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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Kumar, Yashwant
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title Isolated unilateral duplication of vas deferens, a surgical enigma: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Isolated unilateral duplication of vas deferens, a surgical enigma: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Isolated unilateral duplication of vas deferens, a surgical enigma: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Isolated unilateral duplication of vas deferens, a surgical enigma: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Isolated unilateral duplication of vas deferens, a surgical enigma: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort isolated unilateral duplication of vas deferens, a surgical enigma: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783123/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-167
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