Acute scrotum in elderly; is it torsion !

Testicular torsion occurs most frequently in a preadulthood age. In geriatric people, it is very rare and should not be an exclusion criterion for the diagnosis. Lack of awareness about testicular torsion in elderly people may end up with delayed or misdiagnosis. In this article, we report a case of...

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Autores principales: Alqasem, Saad, Alhamdan, Abdulmajeed, Alhefzi, Abdulrahman, Alhazmi, Ahmad, Moazin, Maher, Alfakhri, Abdullah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Andrology and Fertility
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6833350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31709147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.101032
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author Alqasem, Saad
Alhamdan, Abdulmajeed
Alhefzi, Abdulrahman
Alhazmi, Ahmad
Moazin, Maher
Alfakhri, Abdullah
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description Testicular torsion occurs most frequently in a preadulthood age. In geriatric people, it is very rare and should not be an exclusion criterion for the diagnosis. Lack of awareness about testicular torsion in elderly people may end up with delayed or misdiagnosis. In this article, we report a case of testicular torsion in 62 years old Saudi man.
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spelling pubmed-68333502019-11-08 Acute scrotum in elderly; is it torsion ! Alqasem, Saad Alhamdan, Abdulmajeed Alhefzi, Abdulrahman Alhazmi, Ahmad Moazin, Maher Alfakhri, Abdullah Urol Case Rep Andrology and Fertility Testicular torsion occurs most frequently in a preadulthood age. In geriatric people, it is very rare and should not be an exclusion criterion for the diagnosis. Lack of awareness about testicular torsion in elderly people may end up with delayed or misdiagnosis. In this article, we report a case of testicular torsion in 62 years old Saudi man. Elsevier 2019-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6833350/ /pubmed/31709147 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.101032 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Andrology and Fertility
Alqasem, Saad
Alhamdan, Abdulmajeed
Alhefzi, Abdulrahman
Alhazmi, Ahmad
Moazin, Maher
Alfakhri, Abdullah
Acute scrotum in elderly; is it torsion !
title Acute scrotum in elderly; is it torsion !
title_full Acute scrotum in elderly; is it torsion !
title_fullStr Acute scrotum in elderly; is it torsion !
title_full_unstemmed Acute scrotum in elderly; is it torsion !
title_short Acute scrotum in elderly; is it torsion !
title_sort acute scrotum in elderly; is it torsion !
topic Andrology and Fertility
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6833350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31709147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.101032
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