Open Processus Vaginalis
Open Access
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Peritoneal Dialysis International
- Vol. 3 (1) , 30-31
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089686088300300111
Abstract
Five months after starting continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), a communicating hydrocele developed with massive edema of the scrotum and of the penis. Peritoneal injection of radioactive technetium (Tc99m) demonstrated a tract suggesting an open processus vaginalis. It is assumed that the rise in intraabdominal pressure during the CAPD procedure led to a reopening of this processus vaginalis. Therapy consisted in its ligation.Keywords
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