Ultrasound of a patient with penetrating scrotal trauma: finding a needle in a haystack

We present a case of a 27-year-old man who referred to the Emergency Department complaining scrotal pain. He mentioned a sharp penetrating scrotal trauma occurred at work. Clinical examination showed mild scrotal tenderness. The patient underwent scrotal ultrasound that showed only a suspicious fore...

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Autores principales: Pavia, Maria Pia, Fabiani, Andrea, Principi, Emanuele, Servi, Lucilla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7841226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33537106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.01.022
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Fabiani, Andrea
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description We present a case of a 27-year-old man who referred to the Emergency Department complaining scrotal pain. He mentioned a sharp penetrating scrotal trauma occurred at work. Clinical examination showed mild scrotal tenderness. The patient underwent scrotal ultrasound that showed only a suspicious foreign body in the tunica vaginalis. A scrotal surgical exploration was performed and a nail was confirmed at the level of the tunica vaginalis.
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spelling pubmed-78412262021-02-02 Ultrasound of a patient with penetrating scrotal trauma: finding a needle in a haystack Pavia, Maria Pia Fabiani, Andrea Principi, Emanuele Servi, Lucilla Radiol Case Rep Case Report We present a case of a 27-year-old man who referred to the Emergency Department complaining scrotal pain. He mentioned a sharp penetrating scrotal trauma occurred at work. Clinical examination showed mild scrotal tenderness. The patient underwent scrotal ultrasound that showed only a suspicious foreign body in the tunica vaginalis. A scrotal surgical exploration was performed and a nail was confirmed at the level of the tunica vaginalis. Elsevier 2021-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7841226/ /pubmed/33537106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.01.022 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. 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/).
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Ultrasound of a patient with penetrating scrotal trauma: finding a needle in a haystack
title Ultrasound of a patient with penetrating scrotal trauma: finding a needle in a haystack
title_full Ultrasound of a patient with penetrating scrotal trauma: finding a needle in a haystack
title_fullStr Ultrasound of a patient with penetrating scrotal trauma: finding a needle in a haystack
title_full_unstemmed Ultrasound of a patient with penetrating scrotal trauma: finding a needle in a haystack
title_short Ultrasound of a patient with penetrating scrotal trauma: finding a needle in a haystack
title_sort ultrasound of a patient with penetrating scrotal trauma: finding a needle in a haystack
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7841226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33537106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2021.01.022
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