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Missed testis on laparoscopy despite blind-ending vessels and closed processus vaginalis
Christina Kim1, Nelson Bennett, Steven G Docimo
1Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. ckim@ccmckids.org
Urology
|June 1, 2005
Abstract:
Laparoscopy has become a preferred technique to evaluate a nonpalpable testis. It gives excellent visualization of the anatomy to differentiate a viable or absent testis. We present a case of an intra-abdominal testis that was missed on diagnostic laparoscopy. Despite a closed processus vaginalis, an absent vas deferens, and blind-ending vessels above the internal ring, the testis was missed.

