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DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING OF TESTICULAR ABSCESS

https://doi.org/10.22328/2079-5343-2016-1-69-77

Abstract

A testicular abscess is a rare disease and occurs in 1% of cases of acute inflammatory diseases of organs of a scrotum. Timely diagnosis of testicular abscess is difficult. Problems in the diagnosis of testicular abscess caused by specific clinical, laboratory, and radiation pattern, rarity of disease and lack of awareness of physicians. Diagnostic possibilities of radiological methods are under study. The purpose of this article was to study the possibilities of clinical, laboratory and ultrasound diagnosis of testicular abscess. The paper presents the results of a retrospective analysis of clinical, laboratory and ultrasonographic examinations and treatment of 10 patients with testicular abscess in the period from 2005 to 2015. Because of the delay in diagnosis of testicular abscess in the prehospital period was dominated by a complicated stage of the disease, and among the methods of treatment - orchiectomy. The ultrasound has high efficiency in the diagnosis of testicular abscess. A differential diagnosis of abscess of the testis and similar for clinical and ultrasonographic picture of the diseases such as tumor, hematoma, and torsion of the testis are discussed. It is possible to see a rare combination of an abscess and testicular tumors. Patients over the age of 50 years with acute inflammatory diseases of the testis and epididymis and burdened by the background of immunodeficiency have an increased risk of development of testicular abscess and should be kept under strict dynamic clinical, laboratory, and sonographic monitoring during treatment conducted in a specialized hospital.

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A. V. Prokhorov
City Clinical Hospital No 57
Russian Federation


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Prokhorov A.V. DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING OF TESTICULAR ABSCESS. Diagnostic radiology and radiotherapy. 2016;(1):69-77. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22328/2079-5343-2016-1-69-77

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