%0 Journal Article
%T Escroto Agudo: frecuente urgencia uro-pedi¨¢trica
%A Fong Aldama
%A Francisco J
%A Garc¨ªa Sosa
%A Niurka
%A Santana Valera
%A Rodolfo
%A Toledo Mart¨ªnez
%A Ernesto
%J Revista M£¿£¿dica Electr£¿3nica
%D 2011
%I Centro Provincial de Informaci¨®n de Ciencias M¨¦dicas. Matanzas
%X objective: analyzing the patients treated for acute scrotum at the teaching pediatric provincial hospital eliseo noel caama£¿o, of matanzas. patients: from january 2000 to 2010, 96 patients entered the hospital with acute scrotum; 54 of them were diagnosed as testicular torsion, 26 as torsion of morgagni hydatid, 13 as acute orchiepidydimitis associated to trauma or not, and 3 of scrotal edema. results: the higher incidence was in the first decade of life. in the analyzed study the testicular torsion was the first cause, followed by the hydatid torsion. conclusions: the patients who have these two causes of acute scrotum should be objects of surgical treatment as urgent as possible.
%K acute scrotum
%K testicular torsion
%K hydatid of morgagni torsion
%K acute orchiepididymitis.
%U http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1684-18242011000500010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en