Hemiscrotal Agenesis: A Rare Congenital Anomaly
Published: August 1, 2017 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2017/28605.10507
Alexandros Psarris, Anastasia Dimopoulou, Emmanouil Iakomidis, Nikolaos Zavras, Georgios Vaos
1. Resident, Department of Gynaecology, Agios Savvas Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece.
2. Consultant, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Attikon University General Hospital, School of Medicine,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
3. Senior Resident, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Agia Sofia Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece.
4. Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Attikon University General Hospital, School of Medicine,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
5. Professor, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Attikon University General Hospital, School of Medicine,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Correspondence
Dr. Anastasia Dimopoulou,
Consultant, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Attikon University General Hospital, Rimini Street 1, 124 62, Athens, Greece.
Email: natasa_dimo@hotmail.com
Hemiscrotal Agenesis (HSA) is the rarest developmental malformation of the scrotum. It is characterized by the absence of either half of the scrotal rugae with an intact midline raphe. We report the case of a 16-month-old boy with HSA, with an island of scrotal tissue in the pubic tubercle region and ipsilateral cryptorchidism. To our knowledge, this is the first case of HSA with heterotopic development of scrotal tissue.
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