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Inguinal hernia surgery reveals Vietnam man has uterus, ovaries

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 12/10/2016 16:09 GMT + 7

A man in southern Vietnam has lived 26 years without knowing he has a uterus and a pair of ovaries.

T.T.P., a resident of Tien Giang Province, has been married for four years but has yet to have children, despite a normal sexual life with his wife.

After an infertility test, P. was diagnosed as having no sperm in the semen and suffering from inguinal hernia.

The man thus went to the Military Hospital 120 for the inguinal hernia treatment, and was asked to undergo a surgery.

“However, during the operation, our surgeons found a huge tumor that looks just like a uterus with ovaries in both sides,” doctor Vu Dang Trung, the hospital deputy director, said on Friday.

Doctors then went on to remove the tumor for the patient.
“The tumor weighs 300g and appears to be a real uterus and a pair of ovaries,” doctor Trung said.

The patient recovers well after the successful operation, the doctor added.
Trung underlined this is a rare case in both local and international literature.

“Earlier there is one similar in India, but that man leads a normal sex life with his wife and has two children,” Trung said.