Diagnosis and Quantification

Segmental Testicular Infarction Due to Sickle Cell Disease

Published in Sex Weekly Plus, October 5th, 1998

A case of segmental infarction of a testis presenting as an acute scrotum in a patient with sickle cell anemia has recently been reported.

Testicular infarction not associated with torsion is rare and segmental infarction is even more rare.

The causes of testicular infarction in adults include trauma, sequela of epididymoorchitis, polycythemia, hypersensitive angiitis, intimal fibroplasia of the spermatic artery and idiopathic etiology.

In most reported cases the diagnosis of testicular infarction was made several days after the onset of symptoms, and the testis was removed to rule out malignancy.

O.N. Gofrit...

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