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Testicular Pain

Acute and Chronic

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Book cover Genitourinary Pain And Inflammation

Part of the book series: Current Clinical Urology ((CCU))

Summary

Testicular pain is an assiduous visitor in the urological consultation. When it appears as an acute onset, it constitutes a medical emergency that needs proper evaluation and an immediate solution, sometimes by means of surgery. When it appears as chronic problem, it is a riddle that requires great knowledge to know the wide inventory of differential diagnosis, upon which the mechanisms of testicular pain are based on. Limited knowledge of options of differential diagnosis frequently implies mistaken diagnosis assignation to clinic onset that shares identical signs and symptoms but were originated in different diseases or physiopathology.

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Uribe, J.F. (2008). Testicular Pain. In: Potts, J.M. (eds) Genitourinary Pain And Inflammation. Current Clinical Urology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-126-4_10

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