Pediatric News, October 1st, 2006
NEW YORK -- Consider acute scrotal pain to be testicular torsion until proved otherwise, Dr. Richard N. Schlussel said at a meeting on pediatric surgery that was sponsored by Columbia University.
However, all scrotal swelling is not necessarily testicular torsion, said Dr. Schlussel, an assistant professor of urology at the university in New York.
Take a complete history, looking for symptoms such as pain at rest, severe pain, and nausea, which tend to correlate with torsion, he said.
Possible differential diagnoses include not only torsion of the spermatic cord, but also torsion of the a...
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