PERSISTENT MULLERIAN DUCT SYNDROME PRESENTING AS AN INGUINAL HERNIA : A CASE REPORT

January 22, 2017
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Amit Dangi¹, Sandhya Gupta¹, Vinod Tamaknand¹, Rajesh Godara¹, Pradeep Garg¹.

1) PGIMS Rohtak, University of Health Sciences, Haryana, India.

Disclosure: The author has declared no conflicts of interest.

Received: 24.09.15 Accepted: 10.10.15

Citation: 10.5455/ijsm.20151010105707

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Abstract:

A brief report of persistent mullerian duct syndrome (PMDS) with 46XY karyotype which is one of the rarest variety of disorders of sexual differentiation (DSD) accounting only 5% cases of all is being presented. A 21 years old male with left inguinal hernia and absent right testis presented in surgical outdoor and was operated. On exploration female genital organs like uterus and fallopian tubes along with contralateral testis were present in left inguinal canal as a content of sliding left inguinal hernia.

Keywords: Mullerian duct syndrome, karyotype, disorders of sexual differentiation (DSD), cryptorchidism, inguinal hernia.

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Dangi, A., Gupta, S., Tamaknand, V., Godara, R. and Garg, P. (2017) ‘Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome presenting as an inguinal hernia: A case report’, International Journal of Surgery and Medicine, , p. Online First. doi: 10.5455/ijsm.20151010105707.