Letter to the Editor

Another Case of Testicle Duplication With Contralateral Agenesis

Authors: James Bradley Summers, MS, MD, Joseph Kaminski, MD

Abstract

We read with interest the recent case report on the rare occurrence of unilateral testicular duplication with contralateral testicular agenesis or anorchism.1 In the introduction of this case, a sentence reads “We have found only one similar case reported in the literature.” In the conclusion, the last sentence reads “We report the second case of this association.” This association is indeed rare; however, we are reporting another case not mentioned by the authors that followed the earlier report of Kalani and Purohit2 but preceded the case presented above by Leung et al.1

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References

1.Leung AKC, Wong AL, Kao CP. Duplication of the testis with contralateral anorchism. South Med J2003;96:809–810.
 
2.Kalani BP, Purohit AD. Duplication of the testis. J Pediatr Surg 1972;7:73.
 
3.Porras-Ramírez G, Di Lauro Delgado L, Vergara Rodríguez J. Duplication of the left testicle and cryptorchidism (report of a case) [in Spanish]. Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex 1980;37:429–434.
 
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