TESTICULAR APPENDIX TORSION

vTHE ROLE OF ULTRASOUND

Abstract

Testicular torsion and testicular appendix torsion show similar clinical features, like acute testicular pain and swelling. The testicular torsion needs emergency surgical management, while testicular appendix torsion can be treated conservatively. Lot of work has been going on in developed countries for the accurate diagnosis of the testicular lesions in the field of ultrasonography, from B mode gray scale to Doppler technology. Following study was conducted in our setup by only using B mode real time gray scale ultrasound for the diagnosis of the testicular appendix torsion in small series of patients just to avoid unnecessary surgical exploration and to show that B mode gray scale real time sonography can play important role in the diagnosis of testicular appendix torsion if it is performed carefully.