Pulsatile scrotal masses are extremely rare. We report the first case of pulsatile and painful scrotal mass that had an arterial collateral circulation, equivalent to an arterioarterial shunt, feeding an excluded internal iliac artery aneurysm after aortobifemoral bypass surgery.

BACKGROUND We designed an easy posterolateral transforaminal endoscopic decompression technique, termed PTES, for radiculopathy secondary to lumbar disc herniation. The purpose of the study is to describe the technique of PTES and evaluate the efficacy and safety for treatment of lumbar disc herniation including primary herniation, reherniation, intracanal herniation, and extracanal herniation ...

INTRODUCTION Hydatid disease remains a public health problem in many Mediterranean countries. Liver and lung localizations are the most common. Renal hydatid cysts represent 2 percent to 4 percent of the visceral forms of this disease. To the best of our knowledge a scrotal location has only previously been described in five papers in the literature, all being secondary localizations. In this p...

Neurofibromatosis being manifested as scrotal elephantiasis is a very rare condition and in review of the literature no such presentation was found. Here we report a 20 year old man who presented with scrotal elephantiasis and consequently, a pathological diagnosis of neurofibromatosis was reached.

A lthough scrotal inflation by saline infusion has been widely publicised on websites, 2 this procedure has rarely been reported in the medical literature. We report an HIV positive man who presented with severe scrotal cellulitis following an infusion of saline into his scrotum. Clinicians should be aware of unusual causes of scrotal cellulitis and should warn patients about potential complica...

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ELEPHANTIASIS SCROTI COMPLICATED WITH REDUCIBLE SCROTAL HERNIA, 1st BY PERFORMING A MODIFICATION OF WOOD'S OPERATION ON THE HERNIA; AND 2ndlt, BY EXCISION OF THE DISEASED SCROTUM. Case I.? Aheer, u Mahoinedan cultivator, aged 40 years, who Lad long been in bad health, was admitted into Mr. Cntcliffe's ward on the 28th November, 1871, with elephantiasis of the scrotum of tw...

Subcutaneous and scrotal emphysema are rare complications of suprapubic cystostomy. We present here a rare case of an 81-year-old man with colovesical fistula who had severe subcutaneous and scrotal emphysema after percutaneous suprapubic cystostomy was performed. We inserted a new Foley catheter via the urethra, removed the suprapubic cystostomy and incised his scrotal emphysema for open drain...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate internal herniation as a rare cause of intestinal obstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Files of 18 cases, operated due to internal herniation between 2000 and 2006 at Selcuk University, Meram School of Medicine, General Surgery Department, were reviewed retrospectively. Sixteen patients (88.8%) were male (mean age: 58.2 years; range: 42-67) and 2 were female (mean age: 56...

Few data are available on the true incidence of chronic scrotal pain and most figures relate to post-vasectomy pain syndrome. However, a crude incidence of 350-400 cases of chronic scrotal pain per 100 000 men per year has been estimated on the basis of a questionnaire among Swiss urologists. Data on the impact of scrotal pain on quality of life are lacking. These patients are challenging to bo...

A 38 year old man with a 14-month history of a large scrotal mass was seen in the emergency room complaining of asthenia, fever, pain, and fetid discharge through the scrotal skin. On physical examination an 11 cm tumor was revealed in the right hemiscrotum with scrotal gangrene and two ulcers in the left hemiscrotum (Figure 1). The patient had been treated for schizophrenia for 8 years and fai...