title: [The value of echography in scrotal contusions. Personal experience apropos of 20 cases].
abstract: We report a serial case study of 20 patients presenting scrotal contusions and for whom an emergency scrotal ultrasonography was performed. This investigation is not a luxury. It was a useful confirmation diagnostic tool for hematocele in 1/3 of cases (7/20) as well as for the detection of associated epididymal and or testicular lesions. In 2/3 of cases (13/20) it detected lesions unsuspected by clinical examination so that a therapeutic decision was taken promptly. Scrotal echography is therefore a useful emergency tool not for major trauma where the surgical decision is evident, but for apparently benign trauma where the clinical examination is currently deficient and needs provided a trained ultrasonography operator is available.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Urologie-Andrologie, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sellem
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tobelem
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Economou
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Arvis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004438:Ecchymosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004822:Epididymis / Q000293:injuries; D006398:Hematocele / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012611:Scrotum / Q000293:injuries*; D013737:Testis / Q000293:injuries; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: L'intérêt de l'échographie dans les contusions des bourses. Notre expérience à propos de vingt cas.