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.

Keywords

• Testicular torsion
• Testicular pain
• Scrotal pain
• Adult