| 11. | When the undescended testis is in the inguinal canal, hormonal therapy is sometimes attempted and very occasionally successful.
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| 12. | The trans-inguinal approach involves dissecting through the inguinal canal and carries the risk of weakening the inguinal canal.
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| 13. | A retractile testis high in the scrotum can be difficult to distinguish from a position in the lower inguinal canal.
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| 14. | A hydrocele cannot be reduced into the inguinal canal and gives no impulse on coughing unless a hernia is also present.
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| 15. | An operation in which the hernia sac is removed without any repair of the inguinal canal is described as a herniotomy.
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| 16. | It was a landmark operation because the posterior wall of the inguinal canal could be rebuilt and reinforced with only surgical sutures.
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| 17. | It ends below at the abdominal inguinal ring in a tube of peritoneum, the saccus vaginalis, which protrudes itself down the inguinal canal.
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| 18. | The swelling from epididymitis may stretch along the inguinal canal and may appear similar to that of a hernia, particularly an inguinal hernia.
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| 19. | As a young male animal reaches puberty, the testicles, which originally were inside the abdominal cavity, move down the inguinal canal to the scrotum.
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| 20. | The condition can come to attention because of a bulge in the inguinal canal of an XY infant due to herniation of the uterus.
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