Sclerotherapy for hydrocele and epididymal cysts: a five year study.

Aspiration and sclerotherapy: a nonsurgical treatment option for hydroceles.

PURPOSE We demonstrated that hydrocele aspiration and sclerotherapy with doxycycline is an effective and safe nonsurgical treatment option for hydrocele correction. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical records of patients who underwent hydrocele aspiration and sclerotherapy were analyzed in a retrospective cohort study for success rates as well as improvement in scrotal size and discomfort after...

Sclerotherapy with aqueous phenol for outpatient treatment of hydrocoele and epididymal cysts.

Aspiration and Tetracycline of Hydrocele: Sclerotherapy Can It Replace Surgical Treatment?

A randomized prospeclive study was carried out on 79 patients with a IOta1 of 86 hydroceles to compare surgical treatment with aspiration and tetracycline sclerotherapy. Results revealed that although surgical treatment carried a higher risk of complications (10%) yet, recurrence following it (2.5%) was very low compared lo recurrence in sclerotherapy group (67.4%). We concluded that surgery is...

Sclerotherapy of idiopathic hydroceles and epididymal cysts: a historical comparison trial of 5% phenol versus tetracycline.

Operating time for idiopathic hydroceles and epididymal cysts is scarce as these conditions compete with an increasing caseload of more consequential surgical disease. Therapy is often relegated to repeated aspiration. Sclerotherapy appears to be effective in a majority of published trials, but comparative effectiveness, efficacy and safety of most agents, including phenol versus tetracycline, ...

Epididymal anomalies in boys with undescended testis or hydrocele: Significance of testicular location.

BACKGROUND Epididymal anomalies and patent processus vaginalis are frequently found in boys with cryptorchidism or hydrocele. We conducted this study to evaluate the association between epididymal anomalies and testicular location or patent processus vaginalis in boys with undescended testis or hydrocele. METHODS Children undergoing surgery with undescended testis (group A, 136 boys and 162 t...