Testicular torsion

external

• Causes

  • Cryptorchidism
  • Bell-clapper deformity

• Effects

  • Testicular pain
  • Groin pain
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • High riding testes
  • Primary testicular failure

• Parents

  • Urological disease

• Treatments

  • Scrotal fixation of testes
  • Orchidectomy

• Description

  • "Emergency surgery required. Within six hours
  • the testicle can be saved 90 percent of the time. After 12 hours
  • this falls to 50 percent After 24 hours
  • this falls to 10 percent."