Epididymo-Orchitis in Children: A Review of 35 Cases
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Objective: Epididymo-orchitis is extremely rare in infants and children. The pathophysiologic mechanisms for the development of Epididymo-orchitis are not well known in most of cases. This retrospective review was undertaken to determine causes, management and long term follow-up of this pathology.
Material and Methods: During a 13 years period (between January 1993 and December 2006), a total 35 children with Epididymo-orchitis were enrolled in this study. Mean age of patients was 10.5 ± 3.7 (range: 1-14 years). Diagnosis of epididymo-orchitis was made by patients’ history, physical examination and scrotal Doppler ultrasonographic examination of testes. Urinary system sonography, urinalysis, urine culture and in cases of doubt intravenous urography were performed to detect the underlying abnormalities.
Results: The causes for Epididymo-orchitis were as follows: idiopathic Epididymo-orchitis (n=22), mumps epididymo-orchitis (n=9), bacterial epididymo-orchitis (n=1), tuberculous epididymo-orchitis (n=1) and epididymo-orchitis resulting from Henoch-Schönlein purpura (n=2). In patient with tuberculosis Epididymo-orchitis, no evidence of tuberculosis infection in his urine. This case received aproppriate combination chemotherapy and underwent orchiectomy. Of 35 cases 15 were followed up for long term periods. Mean follow-up time was 49.0 ± 35.8 months (range: 13 months-13 years). Mean volume of testis was significantly lower in testes with Epididymo-orchitis compared to those of contralateral ones (p <0.01).
Conclusion: Differentiating the causes of acute scrotum can sometimes be difficult if only the clinical features or laboratory data are employed. Doppler ultrasound examination is the most useful method in differential diagnosis especially for torsion of the spermatic cord.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Hasan Rıza Aydın
Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi, Trabzon Kanuni SUAM Üroloji Kliniği
Türkiye
Azam Demirel
ATATÜRK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, TIP FAKÜLTESİ, CERRAHİ TIP BİLİMLERİ BÖLÜMÜ, ÜROLOJİ ANABİLİM DALI
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Nisan 2018
Gönderilme Tarihi
7 Kasım 2017
Kabul Tarihi
13 Aralık 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2018 Cilt: 20 Sayı: 1