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Orchiectomies are typically done for [[testicular tumours]]. | Orchiectomies are typically done for [[testicular tumours]]. | ||
They may be done for chronic pain<ref name=pmid23929499>{{Cite journal | last1 = Rönkä | first1 = K. | last2 = Vironen | first2 = J. | last3 = Kokki | first3 = H. | last4 = Liukkonen | first4 = T. | last5 = Paajanen | first5 = H. | title = Role of orchiectomy in severe testicular pain after inguinal hernia surgery: audit of the Finnish Patient Insurance Centre. | journal = Hernia | volume = 19 | issue = 1 | pages = 53-9 | month = Feb | year = 2015 | doi = 10.1007/s10029-013-1150-3 | PMID = 23929499 }}</ref> or to control [[prostate cancer]]. | They may be done for chronic pain<ref name=pmid23929499>{{Cite journal | last1 = Rönkä | first1 = K. | last2 = Vironen | first2 = J. | last3 = Kokki | first3 = H. | last4 = Liukkonen | first4 = T. | last5 = Paajanen | first5 = H. | title = Role of orchiectomy in severe testicular pain after inguinal hernia surgery: audit of the Finnish Patient Insurance Centre. | journal = Hernia | volume = 19 | issue = 1 | pages = 53-9 | month = Feb | year = 2015 | doi = 10.1007/s10029-013-1150-3 | PMID = 23929499 }}</ref> or to control [[prostate cancer]]. Occasionally done in the context of a [[hernia repair]].<ref name=pmid3425809>{{cite journal |authors=Curtsinger LJ, Page CP, Aust JB |title=Orchiectomy during herniorrhaphy: what should we tell the patient? |journal=Am J Surg |volume=154 |issue=6 |pages=636–9 |date=December 1987 |pmid=3425809 |doi=10.1016/0002-9610(87)90232-7 |url=}}</ref> | ||
==Specimen opening== | ==Specimen opening== |
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