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Commentaries on cases involving sepsis following vaginal hysterectomy in a 45-year-old woman and testicular torsion in a 14-year-old boy.
Emergency Medicine. 2015 May;47(5):213-215
May 1, 2015|Emergency Medicine
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Commentaries on cases involving sepsis following vaginal hysterectomy in a 45-year-old woman and testicular torsion in a 14-year-old boy.
In this case, it appears the jury came to the correct decision. Given the patient had only one previous episode of abdominal pain, and an inciting event (trauma to the testicle) on the second presentation, this does not appear to be a case of missed intermittent testicular torsion. Rather, this was a correctly diagnosed testicular torsion with a delayed presentation, resulting in an unsalvageable testicle.
