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Query: UMLS:C0019270 (
hernia
)
15,856
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Unilateral scrotal inflammation was noted in an otherwise asymptomatic three-day-old male and was initially believed to be due to testicular torsion. It proved, however, to be the result of peritonitis from a thermometer-induced rectal perforation presenting via a communicating hydrocele. Treatment included primary closure of the rectal perforation with colostomy diversion combined with parenteral antibiotics. Preoperative evaluation of neonates with acute unilateral
inflammation of the scrotum
and a known hydrocele or
hernia
with flat and oblique x-ray films may reveal significant unsuspected intra-abdominal pathology.
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PMID:Pseudotorsion of testis. 682 8
