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Amyand's hernia presenting as neonatal testicular ischaemia.

Milburn JA, Youngson GG

Department of Paediatric Surgery, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Westburn Road, Aberdeen , AB25 2ZG, Scotland, UK, ggyrach@abdn.ac.uk.

Testicular ischaemia presenting in the neonatal period is most often attributable to neonatal torsion. We present an unusual case of a male neonate who presented with acute appendicitis within a patent processus vaginalis, causing cord compression and consequent testicular ischaemia.

Published 30 March 2006 in Pediatr Surg Int, 22(4): 390-392.
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