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It was easily reduced, and at a subsequent autopsy it was found that it had not been separated from the cord.
Gluiteras a cites a parallel case of dislocation of the testicle into the penis.
It was the result of traumatism--a fall upon the wheel of a cart.
It was reduced under anesthesia, after two incisions had been made, the adhesions broken up, and the shrunken sac enlarged by stretching. Rupture of the spermatic arteries and veins has caused sudden death. Schleiser is accredited with describing an instance in which a healthy man was engaged in a fray in the dark, and, suddenly crying out, fell into convulsions and died in five minutes.
On examination the only injury found was the rupture of both spermatic arteries at the internal ring, produced by a violent pull on the scrotum and testicles by one of his antagonists.
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