Conservative management after prenatal ultrasound diagnosis of meconium periorchitis
- 31 March 2014
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Medical Ultrasonics
- Vol. 41 (4), 499-505
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10396-014-0538-8
Abstract
Meconium periorchitis is caused by the leakage of meconium from a bowel perforation into the peritoneal cavity via a patent processus vaginalis into the scrotal sac during fetal life or in the early postnatal period. Intrauterine meconium peritonitis causes sterile inflammatory response and calcification. Here, we describe a prenatally diagnosed case of meconium periorchitis. During the ultrasound scan at 29 weeks’ gestation, enlargement of the scrotum with many small hyperechogenic masses and normal anatomy of testis was observed. Our case is the 11th prenatally diagnosed case presented in the worldwide literature and the first one described in Poland. This case confirms the latest tendency for the conservative management of meconium periorchitis and an asymptomatic postnatal course.Keywords
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