Torsion of an intrahydrocelic sac in a child: A case report

We report the case of a 3-yr-old boy who presented an acute right hydrocele. A rapid scrotal swelling under tension developed the first hours and the child complained for discomfort especially during palpation of the scrotum. Three days later, surgical exploration revealed an incomplete torsion of a...

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Autores principales: Christianakis, Efstratios, Paschalidis, Nikolaos, Filippou, Georgios, Chorti, Maria, Andromanakos, Nikolaos, Pitiakoudis, Michael, Rizos, Spiros, Filippou, Dimitrios
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18577199
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-18
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author Christianakis, Efstratios
Paschalidis, Nikolaos
Filippou, Georgios
Chorti, Maria
Andromanakos, Nikolaos
Pitiakoudis, Michael
Rizos, Spiros
Filippou, Dimitrios
author_facet Christianakis, Efstratios
Paschalidis, Nikolaos
Filippou, Georgios
Chorti, Maria
Andromanakos, Nikolaos
Pitiakoudis, Michael
Rizos, Spiros
Filippou, Dimitrios
author_sort Christianakis, Efstratios
collection PubMed
description We report the case of a 3-yr-old boy who presented an acute right hydrocele. A rapid scrotal swelling under tension developed the first hours and the child complained for discomfort especially during palpation of the scrotum. Three days later, surgical exploration revealed an incomplete torsion of a communicated and pedunculated peritoneal sac arising from the tunica vaginalis testis. The present case report represents the eleventh report of torsion of processus vaginalis saccular protrusion in the literature, being unique due to painless hematocele.
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spelling pubmed-24403652008-06-27 Torsion of an intrahydrocelic sac in a child: A case report Christianakis, Efstratios Paschalidis, Nikolaos Filippou, Georgios Chorti, Maria Andromanakos, Nikolaos Pitiakoudis, Michael Rizos, Spiros Filippou, Dimitrios Cases J Case Report We report the case of a 3-yr-old boy who presented an acute right hydrocele. A rapid scrotal swelling under tension developed the first hours and the child complained for discomfort especially during palpation of the scrotum. Three days later, surgical exploration revealed an incomplete torsion of a communicated and pedunculated peritoneal sac arising from the tunica vaginalis testis. The present case report represents the eleventh report of torsion of processus vaginalis saccular protrusion in the literature, being unique due to painless hematocele. BioMed Central 2008-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2440365/ /pubmed/18577199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-18 Text en Copyright © 2008 Christianakis et al; 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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Christianakis, Efstratios
Paschalidis, Nikolaos
Filippou, Georgios
Chorti, Maria
Andromanakos, Nikolaos
Pitiakoudis, Michael
Rizos, Spiros
Filippou, Dimitrios
Torsion of an intrahydrocelic sac in a child: A case report
title Torsion of an intrahydrocelic sac in a child: A case report
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title_fullStr Torsion of an intrahydrocelic sac in a child: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Torsion of an intrahydrocelic sac in a child: A case report
title_short Torsion of an intrahydrocelic sac in a child: A case report
title_sort torsion of an intrahydrocelic sac in a child: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18577199
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-18
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