Intraoperative Dilemmas in Polyorchidism: To Pex or not to Pex!!

Supernumerary testis or polyorchidism is a rare congenital anomaly. It is often associated with processus vaginalis anomalies and with increased risk of malignancy and infertility. The approach to management has changed over time, with improvements in imaging techniques allowing surveillance to repl...

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Autores principales: Mittal, Priyanka Garg, Peters, Nitin James, Malik, Muneer Abas, Samujh, Ram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7302454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32581447
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_74_19
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author Mittal, Priyanka Garg
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description Supernumerary testis or polyorchidism is a rare congenital anomaly. It is often associated with processus vaginalis anomalies and with increased risk of malignancy and infertility. The approach to management has changed over time, with improvements in imaging techniques allowing surveillance to replace surgical excision or exploration and biopsy. In this study, two patients were managed with orchidopexy and have had a close follow-up of 2 years.
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spelling pubmed-73024542020-06-23 Intraoperative Dilemmas in Polyorchidism: To Pex or not to Pex!! Mittal, Priyanka Garg Peters, Nitin James Malik, Muneer Abas Samujh, Ram J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Supernumerary testis or polyorchidism is a rare congenital anomaly. It is often associated with processus vaginalis anomalies and with increased risk of malignancy and infertility. The approach to management has changed over time, with improvements in imaging techniques allowing surveillance to replace surgical excision or exploration and biopsy. In this study, two patients were managed with orchidopexy and have had a close follow-up of 2 years. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7302454/ /pubmed/32581447 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jiaps.JIAPS_74_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Intraoperative Dilemmas in Polyorchidism: To Pex or not to Pex!!
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title_full Intraoperative Dilemmas in Polyorchidism: To Pex or not to Pex!!
title_fullStr Intraoperative Dilemmas in Polyorchidism: To Pex or not to Pex!!
title_full_unstemmed Intraoperative Dilemmas in Polyorchidism: To Pex or not to Pex!!
title_short Intraoperative Dilemmas in Polyorchidism: To Pex or not to Pex!!
title_sort intraoperative dilemmas in polyorchidism: to pex or not to pex!!
topic Case Report
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