How useful is a complete urinary tract ultrasound in orchiepididymitis?

Orchiepididymitis (OE) is a frequent cause of pediatric emergency department attendance in boys presenting with acute scrotum. The etiology of most episodes of OE remains unclear and there is no consensus regarding the correlation between OE and underlying genitourinary malformations. Whether imagin...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2022-02, Vol.17 (2), p.e0263934-e0263934
Hauptverfasser:	Aeschimann, Eva, Sanchez, Oliver, Birraux, Jacques, Wildhaber, Barbara E, Manzano, Sergio
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Age Antibiotics Bacterial infections Biology and Life Sciences Blood Child Child, Preschool Children & youth Cystography Diagnosis Diagnosis, Ultrasonic Emergency medical care Emergency medical services Epididymitis Epididymitis - diagnostic imaging Epididymitis - etiology Ethics Etiology Gynecology Humans Hypotheses Infant Male Medical examination Medical records Medicine and Health Sciences Methods Obstetrics Orchitis - diagnostic imaging Orchitis - etiology Pain Patients Pediatric research Pediatrics People and places Retrospective Studies Risk factors Scrotum Statistical analysis Surgery Switzerland - epidemiology Testes Urinalysis Urinary organs Urinary tract Urinary Tract - abnormalities Urinary Tract - diagnostic imaging Urinary tract infections Urinary Tract Infections - complications Urinary Tract Infections - epidemiology Urogenital system Viral infections
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Zusammenfassung:	Orchiepididymitis (OE) is a frequent cause of pediatric emergency department attendance in boys presenting with acute scrotum. The etiology of most episodes of OE remains unclear and there is no consensus regarding the correlation between OE and underlying genitourinary malformations. Whether imaging evaluation should comprise complete urinary tract ultrasonography (US) or voiding cystography is a subject of debate. The aim of this retrospective, single-center study was to analyze i) the number/type of urinary tract malformations detected by US following a first episode of OE in boys with no previously known malformation and ii) the frequency of associated urinary tract infection (UTI). We reviewed the records of 495 boys
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0263934