nonspecific activity-related arm pain is characterized by an absence of objective physical findings and symptoms that do not correspond with objective pathophysiology. arm pain without strict diagnosis is often related to activity, work-related activity in particular, and is often seen in patients with physically demanding work. psychological factors such as catastrophic thinking, symptoms of d...

Even though epididymoorchitis and testicular cancer (TC) may have similar pathophysiological pathways, no prior study has attempted to determine the association between these two diseases. This case-control study investigated the relationship between TC and prior epididymoorchitis by using a large population-based database. We used the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2005 to selec...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 20 January 2003 178 2 89-89 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2002 www.mja.com.au Snapshot A 55-YEAR-OLD taxi driver presented with a three-week history of intermittent sore throat associated with fever and rigors, which responded to paracetamol. On the morning of admission, he woke with severe aching pain in the left groin radiating to the scrot...

BACKGROUND In Australia, notification rates for chlamydia have increased fourfold since the early 1990s. An increasing incidence of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection would be expected to lead to a rise in the incidence of chlamydia related diseases. OBJECTIVES To determine trends in hospital admission rates for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), ectopic pregnancy, and epididymo-orchitis...

Dr. B. E. McConnell?This old man was an N.H.S. patient of mine. He was the proprietor of four or five taxi-cabs, and still drove himself at the age of 75. He led an extremely active life up till admission to hospital. I saw him first, eighteen months ago when he had epididymo-orchitis, for which I gave sulphamezathine. He refused to go to hospital because of driving his taxi. I did not test his...

In this historical cohort study we identified, located, and, if living, interviewed 10,590 vasectomized men from four cities, along with a paired neighborhood control for each. The times between procedure data and interview or death ranged from under one to 41 years, with median equal to 7.9 years and with 2,318 pairs having ten or more years of follow-up. Participant reports of diseases or con...

Objective: In this study, we aimed to investigate the benefit of hematological results in determining differential diagnosis between testicular torsion (TT) and epididymo-orchitis (EO) patients presenting with acute scrotum, determine its predictive value for TT. Material Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 98 who applied our institute’s urology clinics or emergency service complaints scrotum....