False-positive “halo” sign on testicular scintigraphy in a 5-year-old boy with epididymitis and hydrocele

Scintigraphic differentiation between acute torsion, hydrocele and testicular or scrotal abscess can be difficult. Doppler sonography may provide useful complimentary information toward diagnosis. The authors describe a 5-year-old child where epididymitis with hydrocele was misdiagnosed as testicula...

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Autores principales: Santhosh, Sampath, Guha, Poonam, Bhattacharya, Anish, Bawa, Monika, Mittal, Bhagwant Rai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326071
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.104002
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author Santhosh, Sampath
Guha, Poonam
Bhattacharya, Anish
Bawa, Monika
Mittal, Bhagwant Rai
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description Scintigraphic differentiation between acute torsion, hydrocele and testicular or scrotal abscess can be difficult. Doppler sonography may provide useful complimentary information toward diagnosis. The authors describe a 5-year-old child where epididymitis with hydrocele was misdiagnosed as testicular torsion on scrotal scintigraphy.
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spelling pubmed-35435852013-01-16 False-positive “halo” sign on testicular scintigraphy in a 5-year-old boy with epididymitis and hydrocele Santhosh, Sampath Guha, Poonam Bhattacharya, Anish Bawa, Monika Mittal, Bhagwant Rai Indian J Nucl Med Case Report Scintigraphic differentiation between acute torsion, hydrocele and testicular or scrotal abscess can be difficult. Doppler sonography may provide useful complimentary information toward diagnosis. The authors describe a 5-year-old child where epididymitis with hydrocele was misdiagnosed as testicular torsion on scrotal scintigraphy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3543585/ /pubmed/23326071 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.104002 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Santhosh, Sampath
Guha, Poonam
Bhattacharya, Anish
Bawa, Monika
Mittal, Bhagwant Rai
False-positive “halo” sign on testicular scintigraphy in a 5-year-old boy with epididymitis and hydrocele
title False-positive “halo” sign on testicular scintigraphy in a 5-year-old boy with epididymitis and hydrocele
title_full False-positive “halo” sign on testicular scintigraphy in a 5-year-old boy with epididymitis and hydrocele
title_fullStr False-positive “halo” sign on testicular scintigraphy in a 5-year-old boy with epididymitis and hydrocele
title_full_unstemmed False-positive “halo” sign on testicular scintigraphy in a 5-year-old boy with epididymitis and hydrocele
title_short False-positive “halo” sign on testicular scintigraphy in a 5-year-old boy with epididymitis and hydrocele
title_sort false-positive “halo” sign on testicular scintigraphy in a 5-year-old boy with epididymitis and hydrocele
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3543585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326071
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.104002
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