HYDROCEL

-FLUID FILLED SAC

-SWELLING ON THE SCROTUM
-ONE IN TEN MALE INFANTS
-DISSAPEAR WITHOUT TREATMENT
-FIRST YEAR OF LIFE

-ARENT PAINFUL
-NOT HARMFUL
-REQUIRE NO TREATMENT
-IF YOU HAVE SCROTAL SWELLING :
- TESTICULAR CANCER
- OTHER CONDITION

CAUSES
-BABY BOYS---A FEW WEEKS AFTER BIRTH.
-EIGHTH MONTH OF GESTATION----TESTICLE
DESCEND ---ABDOMINAL CAVITY---SCROTUM
-A SAC (PROCESSUS VAGINALIS) ---ALLOWING
FLUID TO SURROUND

-MOST CASES--- SAC CLOSES---FLUID

IS ABSORBED
-IF FLUID REMAINS AFTER THE SAC
CLOSE--NONCOMMUNICATING
HYDROCELE
- USUALLY---FLUID GETS ABSORBED--ONE YEAR

-SOME CASES---SAC REMAIN

OPEN---COMMUNICATING
HEDROCELE
-THE SAC CAN CHANGE SIZE
-IN OLDER MALES---INFLAMATION
INJURY

RISK FACTORS:

-MOST HYDROCELECONGENITAL (AT BIRTH)

-SECONDARY HYDROCELE---MAN 40 OR OLDER:
- SCROTAL INJURY
- INFECTION
- RADIATION THERAPY

TREATMENT
-BABY BOYS---DISAPPEAR IN ONE YEAR
-IF PERSISTENT OR BECOME LARGER--SURGICALLY
-ADULT MALES---OFTEN DISAPEAR
-LARGE ENOUGH---REQUIRE TREATMENT
---REMOVED

TREATMENT APPROACHES INCLUDE :

1. SURGICAL EXICISION
2. NEEDLE ASPIRATION