BACKGROUND Narrowing of the internal ring around the pulled through spermatic cord in cases of laparoscopic orchiopexy is the norm. AIM To carry out a prospective study to see if closure of the internal ring is really necessary, hypothesis being that mobilization of the impalpable testis leaves a raw surface, which, coupled with the presence of the spermatic cord results in effective closure ...

Correspondence to: Thum-Umnuaysuk S, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok 65000, Thailand. Phone: 055-261-900 ext. 5018, Fax: 055261-923 Omental torsion is a rare disease and there is no published medical report in Thailand. This can mimic other conditions and rarely be diagnosed before surgery. This paper presents a case of right lower quadrant pain that...

Riyad T. Ellati, Parviz K. Kavoussi, Terry T. Turner, Jeffrey J. Lysiak From the Department of Urology, University of Virginia Health System, USA Purpose: This review addresses different aspects of testicular torsion from the clinical perspective as well as the basic cellular and molecular events responsible for the post-torsion testicular changes and pathology, including tissue ischemia-reperf...

Spermatic cord is a rare metastatic site of colorectal cancer. We herein report a case of spermatic cord metastasis of a previous undiagnosed multifocal colon adenocarcinoma, which was clinically presented as a strangulated groin hernia.

congenital undescending testis is a common anomaly of testis, but we had a rare case of ectopic testis. a 15-month-old infant was operated emergently because of left incarcerate inguinal hernia. intraoperative exploration of hernial sac revealed two ectopic testes with one spermatic cord proximally but in the middle divided to two spermatic cords in a 8 shape. there was an important point about...

Transl Androl Urol, Vol 3, Suppl 1 September 2014 www.amepc.org/tau © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. subinguinal spermatic cord and to clarify their differences between two sides, between patients with different complaints and between varicoceles with different clinical grades. Materials and methods: A total of 102 consecutive patients underwent 162 primary subinguina...

OBJECTIVE To study and review spermatic cord sarcomas, including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment. METHODS/RESULTS We review the Spanish and international literature and report 4 new cases: 2 patients with well-differentiated spermatic cord liposarcomas (1 treated by simple tumorectomy), 1 patient with liposarcomatous degeneration of a previously excised atypical lipoma, and 1 patient opera...

INTRODUCTION Lichtenstein hernia repair made revolutionary progress in hernia treatment. Since that a lot of modifications have been proposed. In a few of them attention is drawn to spermatic cord isolation from a mesh for prevention of spermatic cord involvement into inflammatory process which may lead to disturbances in ejaculation act and spermatogenesis itself AIM OF THE STUDY To compare ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of papaverine and alprostadil on testicular torsion-detorsion injury in rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 40 male Wistar-Albino rats were used in this study. Four hours of right testicular torsion was applied to each group, excluding sham operated group. The torsion-detorsion (T/D), T/D + papaverine and T/D + alprostadil groups received saline, papaver...