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Tubular ectasia of rete testes
Has anyone actually studied the correlation between tubular ectasia and cause? We tell the residents that it can be due to prior vasectomy, inguinal hernia repair prostate surgery/radiation, or prior infection, but I don’t actually know if any of those associations have been proven/published!
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Does it matter?
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No, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be curious.
Also, I was asked to test the new forum, so I’m testing it out. Seems to be working. I received an email notification.
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I’m not sure I would always ascribe the observation to some pathologic cause. I think it can just be a normal variant of sorts. It’s clearly associated with spermatoceles (that’s been published) and we don’t think of spermatoceles being “caused” by anything (at least I don’t).
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This reply was modified 11 months, 4 weeks ago by Maitray D. Patel.
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Great to be here. Think more often of what it’s not that how it got there so appreciate the discussion though have seen it a patient or 2 on chronic dialysis where calcium oxalate deposition is thought to be the culprit.
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