Hemiscrotal Agenesis: A Rare Congenital Anomaly

Alexandros Psarris; Anastasia Dimopoulou; Emmanouil Iakomidis; Nikolaos Zavras; Georgios Vaos

doi:10.7860/JCDR/2017/28605.10507

Hemiscrotal Agenesis: A Rare Congenital Anomaly

J Clin Diagn Res. 2017 Aug;11(8):PD19-PD20. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2017/28605.10507. Epub 2017 Aug 1.

Authors

Alexandros Psarris¹, Anastasia Dimopoulou², Emmanouil Iakomidis³, Nikolaos Zavras⁴, Georgios Vaos⁵

Affiliations

¹ Resident, Department of Gynaecology, Agios Savvas Cancer Hospital, Athens, Greece.
² Consultant, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Attikon University General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
³ Senior Resident, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Agia Sofia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece.
⁴ Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Attikon University General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
⁵ Professor, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Attikon University General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Abstract

Hemiscrotal Agenesis (HSA) is the rarest developmental malformation of the scrotum. It is characterized by the absence of either half of the scrotal rugae with an intact midline raphe. We report the case of a 16-month-old boy with HSA, with an island of scrotal tissue in the pubic tubercle region and ipsilateral cryptorchidism. To our knowledge, this is the first case of HSA with heterotopic development of scrotal tissue.

Keywords: Cryptorchidism; Perineum; Scrotum.

Publication types

Case Reports