Ectopic spleen in testicular parenchyma: case report
Journal: Revista Mexicana de Urología
Year: 2023

Clinical case description: This report presents the case of a 32-year-old man with palpable solid nodule in the left testicle with a diagnostic hypothesis of testicular cancer, which turned out to be splenic tissue through pathological anatomy analysis. Relevance: The splenogonadal fusion is a rare and benign congenital anomaly related to the presence of ectopic spleen tissue in the gonadal parenchyma, caused by fusion between these two tissues during the fifth or sixth week of embryonic develop