A 55-Year-Old Man with Right Testicular Pain: Too Old for Torsion?

A 55-Year-Old Man with Right Testicular Pain: Too Old for Torsion?

Testicular torsion is predominantly a disease of adolescence, but age itself should not be an exclusion criterion for the diagnosis. A lack of suspicion for testicular torsion in older patients may result in a missed or delayed diagnosis which jeopardizes the chance of testicular salvage. In this ar...

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Veröffentlicht in:Urology case reports 2017-02, Vol.11 (C), p.74-75
Hauptverfasser: Tang, Yu Ho, Yeung, Victor Hip Wo, Chu, Peggy Sau Kwan, Man, Chi Wai
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Sprache:eng
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Adult
Andrology and Fertility
Scrotal pain
Testicular pain
Testicular torsion
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Zusammenfassung:Testicular torsion is predominantly a disease of adolescence, but age itself should not be an exclusion criterion for the diagnosis. A lack of suspicion for testicular torsion in older patients may result in a missed or delayed diagnosis which jeopardizes the chance of testicular salvage. In this article, we report a case of testicular torsion in a 55-year-old Chinese man.
ISSN:2214-4420
2214-4420
DOI:10.1016/j.eucr.2016.11.023