Triorchidism, a Rare Genitourinary Anomaly: A Case Series

Triorchidism is the most common type of polyorchidism. In general, polyorchidism is a rare congenital anomaly that has been reported in around two hundred cases to date. We report a case series on 5- and 12-year-old boys that visited our hospital for undescended testis, and during intervention, trio...

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Autores principales: Assefa, Hiwote G, Erge, Maru Gama, Gebreselassie, Hana Abebe
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Publicado: Dove 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8336984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34368020
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RRU.S323558
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description Triorchidism is the most common type of polyorchidism. In general, polyorchidism is a rare congenital anomaly that has been reported in around two hundred cases to date. We report a case series on 5- and 12-year-old boys that visited our hospital for undescended testis, and during intervention, triorchidism was found incidentally. This case series offers brief discussion on polyorchidism and its management principles ascribed in different literatures.
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spelling pubmed-83369842021-08-05 Triorchidism, a Rare Genitourinary Anomaly: A Case Series Assefa, Hiwote G Erge, Maru Gama Gebreselassie, Hana Abebe Res Rep Urol Case Series Triorchidism is the most common type of polyorchidism. In general, polyorchidism is a rare congenital anomaly that has been reported in around two hundred cases to date. We report a case series on 5- and 12-year-old boys that visited our hospital for undescended testis, and during intervention, triorchidism was found incidentally. This case series offers brief discussion on polyorchidism and its management principles ascribed in different literatures. Dove 2021-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8336984/ /pubmed/34368020 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RRU.S323558 Text en © 2021 Assefa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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