Laparoscopic orchiectomy and contralateral vasectomy in a patient with an abdominal testicle: a case report.
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Abstract
We present a case of a 38-year-old man with a unilateral intra-abdominal testicle and undesired fertility in whom orchiectomy and contralateral vasectomy were performed laparoscopically. Urologists have been using diagnostic laparoscopy in patients with nonpalpable testes to plan the definitive procedure when the testicle is present, and to avoid laparotomy in cases of testicular absence. This case of laparoscopic orchiectomy and vasectomy demonstrates that operative laparoscopy allows another subset of patients with cryptorchidism to avoid open laparotomy.
Medical subject headings
- Cryptorchidism
- Laparoscopy
- Orchiectomy
- Vasectomy