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You will often find it very difficult to differentiate between these two conditions. If there is any reasonable doubt, exploration of the scrotum should be performed. No harm will be done by exploring an infected scrotum but a great deal of harm may be done by not exploring a torsion.
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Carruthers, R.K. (1991). Epididymo-orchitis and Torsion of Testis. In: First on Call for Urology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12258-5_24
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