Nellore, on Thursday, doctors in Sri Priya Nursing Home at Kuppam in Chittoor district were flabbergasted when they found an uterus while examining a 23-year-old man who had come complaining of hernia.

The youth, identified as Mr Amaresh, is a farmworker and a native of Itukapalli village near Hosur in Tamil Nadu.

Dr Sudheer of the nursing home said, the patient had approached them unable to bear severe pain in his right testicle, a common condition called Right Inguinal Hernia.

An empty bag in the place of testicles has been found by Dr Sudheer during examination, and the patient confirmed that they had been that way since birth.

Assuming that the testicles hadn’t descended, which happens in some cases, the medical team in the hospital decided to go for a surgery.

But the team was astonished when they found an uterus and even ovaries, like in a woman, but without the physiological functions of uterus or menstrual phases.

Stressing that it was a rarest of rare case, the ovaries had been doing the job of testicles.

Dr Sudheer said it was a genetic anomaly called Persistent Mullerian Duct.

According to doctor, “We have removed the uterus and he can lead a normal life after marriage and have children too without any hassles”.