Hydroceles of the Canal of Nuck in Adults-Diagnostic, Treatment and Results of a Rare Condition in Females.

ABSTRACT: Nuck's hydroceles, which develop in a protruding part of the parietal peritoneum into the female inguinal canal, are rare abnormalities and a cause of inguinal swelling, mostly resulting in pain. They appear when this evagination of the parietal peritoneum into the inguinal canal fails to obliterate. Our review of the literature on this topic included several case reports and two case series that presented cases of Nuck hydroceles which underwent surgical therapy. We present six consecutive cases of symptomatic hydroceles of Nuck's canal from September 2016 to January 2020 at the Department of Surgery of Charité Berlin. Several of these patients had a long history of pain and consecutive consultations to outpatient clinics without diagnosis. These patients underwent laparoscopic or convent

SUBMITTER: Fikatas P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7763523 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature