精索捻転症22例の臨床的検討 : 泌尿器科受診が遅れた理由を中心に

Abstract

精巣摘除した13例のうち, 明らかな原因として患者の受診が遅れたことと初診医が適切な診断, 処置ができなかったことがそれぞれ約4割を占めた

We performed surgical treatment in 22 cases of torsion of the spermatic cord during the past sixteen years. Orchiopexy was performed in 9 cases, but in 13 cases orchiectomy was unavoidable. For five patients the visit to a doctor was too late. In five other cases a mistaken diagnosis was made by local medical doctors. Improvement of the success rate of orchiopexy requires that adolescents, their families and teachers should learn to recognize this disease, and doctors of other departments should recognize it as acute scrotum.