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It is a collection of chylous fluid in the tunica vaginalis of scrotum which presents clinically as hydrocele without translucency. It is a clinical manifestation of long-standing lymphatic filariasis (DeVries 2002). Sen et al. (1969) described four cases of chylocele with bilateral disease in two patients.
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Goel, T.C., Goel, A. (2016). Chylocele. In: Lymphatic Filariasis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2257-9_32
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