A 55-Year-Old Man with Right Testicular Pain: Too Old for Torsion?

Testicular torsion is predominantly a disease of adolescence, but age itself should not be an exclusion criterion for the diagnosis. A lack of suspicion for testicular torsion in older patients may result in a missed or delayed diagnosis which jeopardizes the chance of testicular salvage. In this ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Tang, Yu Ho, Yeung, Victor Hip Wo, Chu, Peggy Sau Kwan, Man, Chi Wai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
Materias:
Andrology and Fertility
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28194328
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2016.11.023
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Sumario:Testicular torsion is predominantly a disease of adolescence, but age itself should not be an exclusion criterion for the diagnosis. A lack of suspicion for testicular torsion in older patients may result in a missed or delayed diagnosis which jeopardizes the chance of testicular salvage. In this article, we report a case of testicular torsion in a 55-year-old Chinese man.

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