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PATHOLOGY OF THE SCROTUM
TORSION OF THE TESTICULAR
APPENDAGES
• TORSION OF THE APPENDIX TESTIS IS THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF ACUTE SCROTAL PAIN IN PREPUBERTAL BOYS.
• THE APPENDIX TESTIS, APPENDIX EPIDIDYMIS, AND THE APPENDIX VAS ARE APPENDAGES OF THE TESTIS.
• THESE STRUCTURES ARE SAID TO BE EMBRYOLOGIC REMNANTS OF THE MULLERIAN DUCT, WOLFFIAN DUCT, AND MESONEPHRIC DUCT.
• THE APPENDIX TESTIS IS LOCATED BETWEEN THE HEAD OF THE EPIDIDYMIS AND THE SUPERIOR POLE OF THE TESTIS, WHILE THE APPENDIX EPIDIDYMIS IS LOCATED AT THE HEAD OF EPIDIDYMIS
• THE APPENDIX VAS IS POSITIONED BETWEEN THE BODY AND TAIL OF THE EPIDIDYMIS. Copyright © 2010 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins