Acute scrotum as a complication of Thiersch operation for rectal prolapse in a child

BACKGROUND: We report a case of acute scrotal condition that presented in a four year old male child one year after being treated for an idiopathic rectal prolapse utilizing Thiersch wire. CASE PRESENTATION: The acute scrotum had resulted from spreading perianal infection due to erosion of the circl...

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Autores principales: Saleem, Mohammad M, Al-Momani, Hashem
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1785387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17194301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-6-19
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description BACKGROUND: We report a case of acute scrotal condition that presented in a four year old male child one year after being treated for an idiopathic rectal prolapse utilizing Thiersch wire. CASE PRESENTATION: The acute scrotum had resulted from spreading perianal infection due to erosion of the circlage wire. The condition was treated with antibiotics and removal of the wire. The child made an uneventful recovery. CONCLUSION: This case highlights that patients with Thiersch wire should be followed until the wire is removed. Awareness of anal lesions as a cause of acute scrotal conditions, and history and physical examination are emphasized.
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spelling pubmed-17853872007-02-01 Acute scrotum as a complication of Thiersch operation for rectal prolapse in a child Saleem, Mohammad M Al-Momani, Hashem BMC Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: We report a case of acute scrotal condition that presented in a four year old male child one year after being treated for an idiopathic rectal prolapse utilizing Thiersch wire. CASE PRESENTATION: The acute scrotum had resulted from spreading perianal infection due to erosion of the circlage wire. The condition was treated with antibiotics and removal of the wire. The child made an uneventful recovery. CONCLUSION: This case highlights that patients with Thiersch wire should be followed until the wire is removed. Awareness of anal lesions as a cause of acute scrotal conditions, and history and physical examination are emphasized. BioMed Central 2006-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC1785387/ /pubmed/17194301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-6-19 Text en Copyright © 2006 Saleem and Al-Momani; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Acute scrotum as a complication of Thiersch operation for rectal prolapse in a child
title Acute scrotum as a complication of Thiersch operation for rectal prolapse in a child
title_full Acute scrotum as a complication of Thiersch operation for rectal prolapse in a child
title_fullStr Acute scrotum as a complication of Thiersch operation for rectal prolapse in a child
title_full_unstemmed Acute scrotum as a complication of Thiersch operation for rectal prolapse in a child
title_short Acute scrotum as a complication of Thiersch operation for rectal prolapse in a child
title_sort acute scrotum as a complication of thiersch operation for rectal prolapse in a child
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1785387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17194301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-6-19
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