Get a load of this hard-boiled horror.
After years of silent growth, doctors were shell-shocked to discover a tumor nestled inside a Chinese man’s scrotum that had ballooned to the size of a chicken’s egg.
With no other symptoms, the oversized lump was the only sign of a condition so rare it’s been documented just a handful of times in medical literature. 3
The patient was a 59-year-old man who finally sought medical help after living with swelling in his left scrotum for two years, a problem that had “seriously affected” his daily life, urologist Lianglong Zhang and colleagues wrote in a case report .
A herdsman from a remote mountain village, the man had limited education and paid little attention to his health.
“That may be why the tumor grew to so big until he came to hospi