Hernia surgery for child in delhi | Hydrocele surgery for child in delhi
How to differentiate between Inguinal hernia and hydrocele? Inguinal hernia is usually a reducible swelling with cry/cough impulse while a hydrocele is a tense cystic, clinically irreducible swelling without any impulse. Transillumination test is not reliable as can be present in both the cases. Why hydrocele is irreducible swelling? The pathogenesis of both hernia and hydrocele is same that is persistence of processus vaginalis. The neck of hydrocele is very narrow and so even if you try to compress the swelling, the fluid from processus vaginalis will not go into the abdominal cavity. The parents will give a characteristic history of swelling being less during morning and then gradually starts increasing in size. While the opening of hernia sac is large enough to allow the free reduction of contents. For how long one can safely wait in hydrocele? The hydrocele which are constant in size through out the day time are usually scrotal type hydrocele and are seen in newborns. They are cal...