Korean J Androl.
2009 Aug;27(2):130-132.
Incidental Polyorchidism in Testicular Injury
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Urology, Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, Seongnam, Korea. phc0404@naver.com
Abstract
- Polyorchidism is a very rare congenital anomaly and about 100 cases have been documented in the literature until today. Polyorchidism or supernumenary testis is defined as the presence of more than 2 histologically proven testes. In most case, polyorchidism have characteristics of unilateral involvement and three testis and mainly finding in left-side testis. And although patient age was various, average age was about 18-year-old in previous review of article. We report a rare case of polyorchidism that an old age patient had an incidentally found right accessory testis in operating a testicular injury.
