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Hydrocele

• Collection of fluid inside

scrotum

• Spontaneous resolution

possible

• In neonate with thin

scrotal skin,

transillumination maybe

elicited

Intra-operative picture of an

open high ligation of right

hydrocele. The hydrocele sac

(arrow) is approached via an

inguinal incision