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A Case Report: Triorchidism; is a Rare Mistaken Cause for Extra Testicular Neoplasm

Polyorchidism is a rare congenital anomaly of the male genitalia which refers to present an extra testicle; triorchidism is the commonest type. This report describes a case of 25-year-old male presented with testicular swelling and palpable scrotal mass, diagnosed as supernumerary testicle and tubul...

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Autor principal: Abduljabbar, Ahmed H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2015.02.002
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description Polyorchidism is a rare congenital anomaly of the male genitalia which refers to present an extra testicle; triorchidism is the commonest type. This report describes a case of 25-year-old male presented with testicular swelling and palpable scrotal mass, diagnosed as supernumerary testicle and tubular ectasia of the rete testis. The most common clinical presentation of triorchidism is painless swelling. Associated inguinal hernia or undescended testis is not uncommon findings. Treatment options will vary according to the type, size, number, anatomical location and vasculature.
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spelling pubmed-47142882016-01-20 A Case Report: Triorchidism; is a Rare Mistaken Cause for Extra Testicular Neoplasm Abduljabbar, Ahmed H. Urol Case Rep Oddities Polyorchidism is a rare congenital anomaly of the male genitalia which refers to present an extra testicle; triorchidism is the commonest type. This report describes a case of 25-year-old male presented with testicular swelling and palpable scrotal mass, diagnosed as supernumerary testicle and tubular ectasia of the rete testis. The most common clinical presentation of triorchidism is painless swelling. Associated inguinal hernia or undescended testis is not uncommon findings. Treatment options will vary according to the type, size, number, anatomical location and vasculature. Elsevier 2015-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4714288/ /pubmed/26793513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2015.02.002 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2015.02.002
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