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Congenital Cystic Pathology of the Rete Testis

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The following are considered congenital anomalies of the rete testis: cysts of the rete testis, cystic dysplasia of the rete testis, hamartomas of the rete testis, dysgenesis of the testis, and most adenomatous hyperplasias. In most of these situations, pathology of the rete testis is not an isolated abnormality but part of an impaired development that may affect not only the testis but most mesonephric derivatives. Cystic dysplasia of the rete testis is a typical lesion of the infantile testis, and the differential diagnosis is established with all the injuries that can have a cystic component such as juvenile granulosa cell tumors, simple testicular cysts, epidermoid cysts, cystic teratomas, and testicular lymphangiectasis. Dysgenesis and adenomatous hyperplasia of the rete testis develop along puberty or in adulthood and are treated in Chaps. 28 and 31.

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  1. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Department of Anatomy, Histology and Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Madrid, Spain

    Manuel Nistal

  2. School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), University Hospital La Paz, Department of Pathology, Madrid, Spain

    Pilar González-Peramato

  3. University Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Department of Urology, Madrid, Spain

    Álvaro Serrano

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Nistal, M., González-Peramato, P., Serrano, Á. (2017). Congenital Cystic Pathology of the Rete Testis. In: Clues in the Diagnosis of Non-tumoral Testicular Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49364-0_29

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