Common scrotal and testicular problems.

US in the assessment of acute scrotum

BACKGROUND The acute scrotum is a medical emergency . The acute scrotum is defined as scrotal pain, swelling, and redness of acute onset. Scrotal abnormalities can be divided into three groups , which are extra-testicular lesion, intra-testicular lesion and trauma. This is a retrospective analysis of 164 ultrasound examination performed in patient arriving in the emergency room for scrotal pain...

Scrotal and testicular measurements in mehraban and ghezel rams

Scrotal swellings in the under 5s.

Scrotal swelling is a common cause of referral to the paediatric surgical services in Edinburgh, constituting 12% of total admissions. Of these, 2818 (65%) were in boys under the age of 5 years, with a wide variety, including inguinal hernias, hydroceles, testicular torsion, tumours, and some interesting but uncommon conditions. A retrospective study was performed over a 12 year period to asses...

Unilateral testicular seminoma with simultaneous contralateral torsion: a case report

INTRODUCTION Testicular germ cell tumors are the most common malignancies in men. Testicular torsion is also a scrotal phenomenon seen in adolescence and adulthood. The co-occurrence of these two scrotal disorders is extremely rare. CASE PRESENTATION A 28-year-old East Asian man presented at our hospital with painless bilateral scrotal swelling. Both scrotal ultrasonography and computed tomog...

Wounds of the Scrotum, Testis, Epididymis, and Spermatic Cord Structures

In the limited data published to date on genitourinary injuries from the Vietnam War, the incidence of scrotal–testicular injuries has varied from 25.4% of all urological injuries reported by Salvatierra et al to as high as 35.4% by Busch et al. In all the series to date, scrotal–testicular injuries constituted the major proportion of wounds of the external genitalia. These wounds were most oft...