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Spontaneous Bilateral Spermatic Vein Thrombosis: A Rare Clinical Presentation

Cases of acute scrotum presenting to the emergency department are usually due to testicular torsion, complicated hernia, or epididymo-orchitis. Thrombosis of the spermatic vein is an uncommon entity and most of the cases reported to date are of unilateral involvement. Here, we present an extremely r...

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Autores principales: Kolleri, Jouhar J, Abdirahman, Abdirahman M, Mahmood, Nabil Sherif, Ladumor, Sushila, Hameed, Safa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8723787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35003990
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20161
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author Kolleri, Jouhar J
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description Cases of acute scrotum presenting to the emergency department are usually due to testicular torsion, complicated hernia, or epididymo-orchitis. Thrombosis of the spermatic vein is an uncommon entity and most of the cases reported to date are of unilateral involvement. Here, we present an extremely rare case of spontaneous bilateral spermatic vein thrombosis, which was diagnosed by a Doppler ultrasound of the testes. This article highlights its clinical presentation, radiological imaging, etiology, and management.
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spelling pubmed-87237872022-01-06 Spontaneous Bilateral Spermatic Vein Thrombosis: A Rare Clinical Presentation Kolleri, Jouhar J Abdirahman, Abdirahman M Mahmood, Nabil Sherif Ladumor, Sushila Hameed, Safa Cureus Radiology Cases of acute scrotum presenting to the emergency department are usually due to testicular torsion, complicated hernia, or epididymo-orchitis. Thrombosis of the spermatic vein is an uncommon entity and most of the cases reported to date are of unilateral involvement. Here, we present an extremely rare case of spontaneous bilateral spermatic vein thrombosis, which was diagnosed by a Doppler ultrasound of the testes. This article highlights its clinical presentation, radiological imaging, etiology, and management. Cureus 2021-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8723787/ /pubmed/35003990 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20161 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kolleri et al. https://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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title Spontaneous Bilateral Spermatic Vein Thrombosis: A Rare Clinical Presentation
title_full Spontaneous Bilateral Spermatic Vein Thrombosis: A Rare Clinical Presentation
title_fullStr Spontaneous Bilateral Spermatic Vein Thrombosis: A Rare Clinical Presentation
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous Bilateral Spermatic Vein Thrombosis: A Rare Clinical Presentation
title_short Spontaneous Bilateral Spermatic Vein Thrombosis: A Rare Clinical Presentation
title_sort spontaneous bilateral spermatic vein thrombosis: a rare clinical presentation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8723787/
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