Development
During development gonads (ovaries or testes) descend from their starting point on the posterior abdominal wall (para-aortically) from labioscrotal swelling near the kidneys down the abdomen and through the inguinal canal to reach the scrotum. The testis then descends through the abdominal wall into the scrotum, behind the processus vaginalis (which later obliterates). Thus lymphatic spread from a testicular tumour is to the para-aortic nodes first, and not the inguinal nodes.
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