Acta Medica (Aug 2020)

Hydrocele in Pediatric Population

  • Ioannis Patoulias,
  • Efstathios Koutsogiannis,
  • Ioannis Panopoulos,
  • Panagiota Michou,
  • Thomas Feidantsis,
  • Dimitrios Patoulias

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2020.17
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 63, no. 2
pp. 57 – 62

Abstract

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Hydrocele is a collection of fluid within the tunica vaginalis. Based upon the etiology and the pathophysiology, it is divided into, the primary and secondary. The primary hydrocele includes the neonatal or the congenital, the communicating and the non-communicating or the closed or the adult type. The secondary hydrocele can develop in the substrate of a pre-existing disease. After systematic and thorough systematic and thorough research of the relevant literature, we aim at describing all the aspects of this entity, with specific emphasis on the issues that remain unanswered from the scientific community.

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