Journal article
Female hydrocele: the cyst of Nuck.
- Caviezel A Department of Surgery, Division of Urologic Surgery, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland. alessandro.caviezel@hcuge.ch
- Montet X
- Schwartz J
- Egger JF
- Iselin CE
- 2009-03-27
Published in:
- Urologia internationalis. - 2009
Adult
Cysts
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Hernia, Inguinal
Humans
Inguinal Canal
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Peritoneal Diseases
Ultrasonography
English
The canal of Nuck is the portion of the processus vaginalis within the inguinal canal in women. A hydrocele of the canal of Nuck is equivalent to an encysted hydrocele of the cord in men. The literature reveals very little about this rare condition in the adult female patient. In this paper, we report a case of hydrocele of the canal of Nuck in a young female. The diagnosis was made with ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging and then confirmed preoperatively and by histopathology. Although rare, a hydrocele of the canal of Nuck has to be included in the differential diagnosis of a groin lump in female patients.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1159/000200808
- PMID 19322018
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/254551
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