Recently, doctors in Udaipur treated a 22-year-old man for undescended testicles (which is when testes fail to drop into the scrotum). The doctors were stunned to find female reproductive organs in his abdomen. The uterus, ovaries and cervix was removed from the man’s body.
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According to the reports, the man was suffering from Persistent Müllerian Duct Syndrome (PMDS), a rare genetic disorder of sexual development. This disorder causes the person to have the male and female reproductive organs because the Müllerian duct, from which uterus and fallopian tubes are derived during development of the foetus, fails to break down during early development in the womb. The affected men have the normal male chromosomes (46, XY) and external male genitalia. Senior gynaecologist Dr Shilpa Goyal said, “It was a first such surgery for me as only around 400 such cases are recorded in medical history. As a gynae-surgeon, I know a woman’s body structure and the placement of the organs in it, but here the challenge was removing a womb from a man’s body.” She, along with urologist Dr Manish Bhatt, performed the surgery at GBH American Hospital on Wednesday.
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The parents knew about his undescended testes since birth but the treatment was done recently. Now that his surgery was successful, they plan to get him married.