Scrotal hydrocele (from Greece "hydro" - meaning water, and "cele" - meaning outpouching) is accumulation of fluid between testis tunics that normally surround it.
During a fetus intrauterine development, vaginal tunic shapes in abdominal cavity together with a testis, and in essence is a part of peritoneum, that during the fetus development descends to scrotum along with the testis.
Vaginal tunic of a testis generates fluid that serves as a kind of caseosa for the testis and promotes its free movement in the scrotum. Normally there is balance between produced fluid and its reverse absorption.
Scrotal hydrocele occurs with approximately 10% of newborns. And in more than a half cases it disappears by itself when a child reaches his first year. This is so-called physiological hydrocele.
Scrotal hydrocele can be either congenital or acquired.
- Congenital hydrocele is a result of nonclosure of the link between abdominal cavity and vaginal tunic of a testis (communicating (open) hydrocele). And thus fluid from abdominal cavity gets into the scrotum.
- Increased production of fluid by testis tunic.
- Not seldom reactive "symptomatic" hydrocele appears in a testis and its parorchis (orchitis, epididymitis) during acute inflammatory processes. And it disappears as soon as treatment for the main disease is over.
- Scrotum trauma.
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What causes scrotal hydrocele development?
Manifestation and symptoms of scrotal hydrocele. Ways of treatment for scrotal hydrocele.
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