Masato Uetani, Fumito Yamabe, Shunsuke Hori, Hiroshi Aoki, Kei Sakurabayashi, Mizuho Okawa, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Koichi Nakajima, Koichi Nagao, Yozo Mitsui
BACKGROUND: Zinner syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly featuring a unilateral seminal vesicle cyst and ipsilateral renal agenesis. While the majority of affected patients are asymptomatic and followed with conservative management, others have symptoms such as micturition, ejaculatory difficulties, and/or pain, thus may require treatment. These patients often undergo an invasive procedure as first-line treatment, such as transurethral resection of the ejaculatory duct, or aspiration and drainage, which reduces pressure within the seminal vesicle cyst, or surgical resection of the seminal vesicle...
May 31, 2023: Translational Andrology and Urology