The spermatic cord is actually a bundle of fibers and tissues that form a cord-like structure that runs through the abdominal region down to the testicles in males. This cord is present as a pair, ...

TORSION of the spermatic cord in older children and young adults is a well known entity presenting a classic clinical picture with which most physicians are quite familiar. A fact that is not ...

Background: A 25-year-old male presented to his local urologist with new-onset right testicular pain and swelling detected on self examination. A scrotal ultrasound scan showed a right testicular mass ...

The scrotum is a sac of skin that hangs from the body at the front of the pelvis, between the legs. It sits next to the upper thighs, just below the penis. The scrotum contains the testicles. These ...

Background A 50-year-old man with a history of hyperlipidemia and hypertension presented to an emergency department after 10 days of fevers (temperature 40 °C), headache, malaise, myalgia, poor ...

TORSION of the spermatic cord resulted in loss of the involved testis in approximately 75 per cent of cases reviewed in the literature by Riba and Schmidlapp. 1 Indifference on the part of the ...