Five-yr boy with both testes on one side undergoes successful surgery at KIMS Cuddles in Kurnool

Normally, boys have one testis on each side of the scrotum. But in a highly unusual and rare case, a five-year-old boy from the undivided Kadapa district was found to have both testes on the same side.

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This condition is extremely rare, occurring in only one in a million cases.

The child developed severe pain and swelling in the right testicle, which turned red and uncomfortable, the hospital said in a release here today.

Alarmed by this, his parents rushed him to KIMS Cuddles Hospital in Kurnool, where Paediatric and neonatal surgeon and Paediatric Urologist Dr. V. Sai Prasuna successfully diagnosed and treated the condition with surgery.