title: A 55-Year-Old Man with Right Testicular Pain: Too Old for Torsion?
abstract: Testicular torsion is predominantly a disease of adolescence, but age itself should not be an exclusion criterion for the diagnosis. A lack of suspicion for testicular torsion in older patients may result in a missed or delayed diagnosis which jeopardizes the chance of testicular salvage. In this article, we report a case of testicular torsion in a 55-year-old Chinese man.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Tuen Mun Hospital, 23 Tsing, Chung Koon Road, Tuen Mun, NT, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Yu Ho
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Tuen Mun Hospital, 23 Tsing, Chung Koon Road, Tuen Mun, NT, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Victor Hip Wo
authors.initials: VH
authors.lastname: Yeung
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Tuen Mun Hospital, 23 Tsing, Chung Koon Road, Tuen Mun, NT, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Peggy Sau Kwan
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Tuen Mun Hospital, 23 Tsing, Chung Koon Road, Tuen Mun, NT, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Chi Wai
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Man
keywords: Adult; Scrotal pain; Testicular pain; Testicular torsion