Testicular Infarction and Rupture After Blunt Trauma — Use of Diagnostic Ultrasound

We report the case of a 23-year-old male who suffered localised testicular infarction and rupture following blunt trauma. This pathology is rare after blunt trauma and has not been previously described in literature. The appearance on ultrasound resembled malignancy, necessitating orchidectomy. An o...

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Autores principales: Pace, Alistair, Powell, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2004
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Short Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5956488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15258668
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2004.101
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spelling pubmed-59564882018-06-03 Testicular Infarction and Rupture After Blunt Trauma — Use of Diagnostic Ultrasound Pace, Alistair Powell, Christopher ScientificWorldJournal Short Review We report the case of a 23-year-old male who suffered localised testicular infarction and rupture following blunt trauma. This pathology is rare after blunt trauma and has not been previously described in literature. The appearance on ultrasound resembled malignancy, necessitating orchidectomy. An overview of the pathology of testicular trauma as well as its management is given with particular emphasis on the use diagnostic ultrasound in testicular trauma. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2004-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5956488/ /pubmed/15258668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2004.101 Text en Copyright © 2004 Alistair Pace and Christopher Powell. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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