How useful is a complete urinary tract ultrasound in orchiepididymitis?

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 17; no. 2; p. e0263934
• Main Authors: Aeschimann, Eva, Sanchez, Oliver, Birraux, Jacques, Wildhaber, Barbara E., Manzano, Sergio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 10.02.2022; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Age; Antibiotics; Bacterial infections; Biology and Life Sciences; Blood; Child; Child, Preschool; Children & youth; Cystography; Diagnosis; Diagnosis, Ultrasonic; Emergency medical care; Emergency medical services; Epididymitis; Epididymitis - diagnostic imaging; Epididymitis - etiology; Ethics; Etiology; Gynecology; Humans; Hypotheses; Infant; Male; Medical examination; Medical records; Medicine and Health Sciences; Methods; Obstetrics; Orchitis - diagnostic imaging; Orchitis - etiology; Pain; Patients; Pediatric research; Pediatrics; People and places; Retrospective Studies; Risk factors; Scrotum; Statistical analysis; Surgery; Switzerland - epidemiology; Testes; Urinalysis; Urinary organs; Urinary tract; Urinary Tract - abnormalities; Urinary Tract - diagnostic imaging; Urinary tract infections; Urinary Tract Infections - complications; Urinary Tract Infections - epidemiology; Urogenital system; Viral infections; Switzerland; United States > US

Orchiepididymitis (OE) is a frequent cause of pediatric emergency department attendance in boys presenting with acute scrotum. The etiology of most episodes of OE remains unclear and there is no consensus regarding the correlation between OE and underlying genitourinary malformations. Whether imagin...