Indirect inguinal hernia sac containing testis and spermatic cord in an adult patient with cryptorchidism

Yusuf Arslan; Kerem Karaman; Fatih Altintoprak; Zeynep Kahyaoglu; Ismail Zengin; Mustafa Yener Uzunoglu; Hakan Demir

doi:10.1093/jscr/rju017

Indirect inguinal hernia sac containing testis and spermatic cord in an adult patient with cryptorchidism

J Surg Case Rep. 2014 Mar 7;2014(3):rju017. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rju017.

Authors

Yusuf Arslan¹, Kerem Karaman², Fatih Altintoprak³, Zeynep Kahyaoglu⁴, Ismail Zengin¹, Mustafa Yener Uzunoglu¹, Hakan Demir¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Surgery, Sakarya Teaching and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey.
² Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey karaman_kerem@yahoo.com.tr.
³ Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Sakarya Teaching and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey.

Abstract

Sliding hernias are those in which part of the sac wall is formed by a retroperitoneal organ and/or its mesentery protruding outside the abdominal wall cavity. The hernia sac may contain jejunum, ileum, vermiform appendix, Meckel's diverticulum, stomach, ovary, fallopian tube or urinary bladder. Our report features an adult case with cryptorchidism in which testis and spermatic cord constitute a component of the indirect inguinal hernia sac.