The scrotum on that side had retracted until it had
almost disappeared; the right external ring was very patent, and
the finger could be passed up in the inguinal canal; there was no
impulse on coughing and no tendency to hernia.
A unique case of ectopia of the testicle in a man of twenty-four
is given by Popoff. The scrotum was normally developed, and the
right testicle in situ. The left half of the scrotum was empty,
and at the root of the penis there was a swelling the size of a
walnut, covered with normal skin, and containing an oval body
about four-fifths the size of the testicle, but softer in
constituency. The patient claimed that this swelling had been
present since childhood. His sexual power had been normal, but
for the past six months he had been impotent. In childhood the
patient had a small inguinal hernia, and Popoff thought this
caused the displacement of the testicle.
A somewhat similar case occurred in the Hotel-Dieu, Paris.
Through the agency of compression one of the testes was forced
along the corpus cavernosum under the skin as far as the glans
penis. It was easily reduced, and at a subsequent autopsy it was
found that it had not been separated from the cord. Gluiteras a
cites a parallel case of dislocation of the testicle into the
penis.
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