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Emergency Department Approach to Testicular Torsion: Two Illustrative Cases

We present two cases of young men with spontaneous nontraumatic testicular pain. While the differential diagnosis for scrotal or testicular pain can include less urgent causes, such as epididymitis, hydrocele, referred pain, idiopathic scrotal edema, and inguinal hernia, for example, the most feared...

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Autores principales: Thomas, Sherwin Z, Diaz, Vanessa I, Rosario, Javier, Kanyadan, Vibhav, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6863585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31799101
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5967
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description We present two cases of young men with spontaneous nontraumatic testicular pain. While the differential diagnosis for scrotal or testicular pain can include less urgent causes, such as epididymitis, hydrocele, referred pain, idiopathic scrotal edema, and inguinal hernia, for example, the most feared etiology for acute scrotal pain is testicular torsion. The fact that a testicle can torse and detorse is also a confounding factor. In this case review, we explore factors affecting the timely diagnosis, management, and outcomes of acute testicular pain. Prompt diagnosis is imperative in order to salvage a torsed testicle.
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spelling pubmed-68635852019-12-03 Emergency Department Approach to Testicular Torsion: Two Illustrative Cases Thomas, Sherwin Z Diaz, Vanessa I Rosario, Javier Kanyadan, Vibhav Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine We present two cases of young men with spontaneous nontraumatic testicular pain. While the differential diagnosis for scrotal or testicular pain can include less urgent causes, such as epididymitis, hydrocele, referred pain, idiopathic scrotal edema, and inguinal hernia, for example, the most feared etiology for acute scrotal pain is testicular torsion. The fact that a testicle can torse and detorse is also a confounding factor. In this case review, we explore factors affecting the timely diagnosis, management, and outcomes of acute testicular pain. Prompt diagnosis is imperative in order to salvage a torsed testicle. Cureus 2019-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6863585/ /pubmed/31799101 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5967 Text en Copyright © 2019, Thomas et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6863585/
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