Persistent Mullerian Duct Syndrome associated with transverse testicular ectopia: a case report

Abstract

The authors describe their experience in the treatment of a child, male phenotype, with a Transverse Testicular Ectopia (TTE), associated with a rudimentary uterus and two Fallopian tubes (Persistent Mullerian Duct Syndrome = PMDS). The boy was transferred to the Pediatric Surgical Unit of the University of Bologna from another hospital where at operation for bilateral cryptorchidism the diagnosis had become apparent. In order to exclude the presence of PMDS it is very important that an abdominal exploration should be performed in all cases of TTE where the testes are undescended. The diagnosis was made by an occasional detection: it is very important, when a TTE in which the testes are undescended is found, to perform the abdominal exploration, in order to exclude the presence of PMDS.