[Scrotal appendicocele in an infant (clinical note)].

The authors present the case of a 7-month old suckling baby with scrotal appendicocele which simulated a para-testicular tumour. They comment upon the difficulty involved in a preoperative diagnosis and analyse the factors which favour the emigration of the appendix to the scrotum at an early age (persistence of the peritoneo-vaginal duct, non-joining of the peritoneal membrane, the insertion of the appendix into the end of the caecum and increases in the intraabdominal pressure). They point out the need for surgery which will be of a diagnostic-therapeutic nature.