Reply to “Comment on Inguinal Canal Development: The Muscular Wall and the Role of the Gubernaculum”

✍ Scribed by Susana N. Biasutto

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 30 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0897-3806
• DOI: 10.1002/ca.20861

✦ Synopsis

We thank Dr. Rashmi Patil's (Patil, 2009) comments and interest demonstrated on the article (Biasutto et al., 2009).

About the numerical mistakes he mentioned, we assume that (1) the number of fetuses dissected were 75. The ''35 females'' was a typing mistake that we did not realize while checking the proofs, but the correct number (33) appears in the abstract. (2) The 96% is related to the testis and not to the fetuses; as the location of each testis in one fetus is not necessarily the same. The cases mentioned in the following sentence are individual testis with different location than most of them. The contralateral testis, of those specifically mentioned, was located at the level of the deep inguinal ring.

We appreciate the opportunity to clarify some aspects that were not properly described in the article.