Testicular torsion and usefulness of radionuclide scanning.
The usage of the testicular scan to differentiate torsion from epididymo-orchitis in 33 patients is reported. Our results yielded a surgically confirmed accuracy rate of 77 per cent, and a clinical accuracy rate of 100 per cent. The entity of missed torsion has a characteristic appearance, which we have termed the "halo sign."
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004823:Epididymitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009920:Orchitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013086:Spermatic Cord Torsion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*