Incidental Polyorchidism in Testicular Injury.
- Author:
Hyeung Chul PARK
1
;
Eun Suk KIM
;
Eun Hong JUNG
;
Keun Bai MUN
;
Che Il KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Urology, Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, Seongnam, Korea. phc0404@naver.com
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Polyorchidism;
Injury;
Old age
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Humans;
Testis
- From:Korean Journal of Andrology
2009;27(2):130-132
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
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.
