Abstract
Genital injuries are rare, tend to affect relatively young people, and usually derive from blunt trauma, machinery accidents, stab wounds, firearm injury and fragmentation devices. Genital traumas require prompt assessment and treatment to minimize the potential severe impact on patients’ quality of life that they may produce.
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Garaffa, G., Ralph, D.J. (2011). Scrotal Trauma: Mechanisms, Presentation and Management. In: Bertolotto, M., Trombetta, C. (eds) Scrotal Pathology. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2011_174
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