[Vaginal hydrocele. Report of 55 surgically treated cases]

The authors analyze retrospectively the files of patients who have been operated on for hydrocele between 6th January 2000 and 27th November 2001 (23 months) in Talangaï hospital at Brazzaville. The overall operation rate for that pathology was 4.44%. Prevalence according to age group is as follows: 14 infants (25.45%), three adolescents (5.45%); 14 adults (25.45%); 24 old persons (43.64%). The localization of hydrocele was right in 54.55% of cases, left in 27.27% and bilateral in 18.18% of cases. In all patients, there was a case of idiopathic hydrocele. Patients got the surgical cure more frequently through the homolateral scrotal route than inguinal and the post-therapeutic healing occurs in all cases without recurrence. The authors make comments on those results and they specify certain current data about the disease.