A New Year begins. With it, personal resolutions are being made throughout the lands. If you have yet to select a worthwhile New Year’s Resolution, join me in striving toward an improvement goal that can benefit ourselves as well as…
Acute scrotal pain will always grab both patient’s and providers’ attention, appropriately. We have already discussed the most feared cause of acute scrotal pain – Testicular Torsion. While there are many other causes of inguinal and scrotal pain (ex, varicocele, inguinal…
Just one more curve ball in the game of medicine. There are several common themes that run throughout these PedEM Morsels (apparently I am not creative enough to develop other ideas). We have discussed how we must be “ever…
Torsion is the most significant condition on the DDx of patient with scrotal pain. Prompt diagnosis is imperative: The success rate of saving the testicle decreases after 6-8 hours. At 12 hours, is the success rate is near 0% (BUT…