Escroto Agudo: frecuente urgencia uro-pediátrica

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.