고환 손상 환자에서 우연히 발견된 다고환증

• Published in: The world journal of men's health pp. 130 - 132
• Main Authors: 박형철, 김은석, 정은홍, 문근배, 김재일
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Korean
• Published: 대한남성과학회 01.08.2009
• Subjects: 비뇨기과학
• ISSN: 2287-4208; 2287-4690

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. 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. KCI Citation Count: 0