Acute scrotal pain due to testicular vein thrombosis is a rare condition. Thrombosis is de-fined as clot formation within the blood vessels and as a result, it interrupts the blood supply of the peripheral organs. In routine urology prac-tice, the incidence of thromboembolic diseases is <1%, and it is mostly encountered in patients at the postoperative period. Nevertheless, testicular vein thrombosis should also be remembered in the differential diagnosis of patients admitted to the emergency department due to acute scrotum. In general, conservative treatment is the first choice in treatment management, but surgical interven-tion may also be required in some cases. Since the available data on this subject are based on the in-formation obtained from case reports, a standard treatment approach should be developed by exam-ining the current treatment methods. We aim to present the case report of testicular vein thrombo-sis in the light of the literature, which is one of the rarely seen emergencies of urology.
Keywords: acute pain; color doppler ultraso-nography; venous thrombosis; testicular diseases
ABSTRACT
Acute scrotal pain due to testicular vein thrombosis is a rare condition. Thrombosis is de-fined as clot formation within the blood vessels and as a result, it interrupts the blood supply of the peripheral organs. In routine urology prac-tice, the incidence of thromboembolic diseases is <1%, and it is mostly encountered in patients at the postoperative period. Nevertheless, testicular vein thrombosis should also be remembered in the differential diagnosis of patients admitted to the emergency department due to acute scrotum. In general, conservative treatment is the first choice in treatment management, but surgical interven-tion may also be required in some cases. Since the available data on this subject are based on the in-formation obtained from case reports, a standard treatment approach should be developed by exam-ining the current treatment methods. We aim to present the case report of testicular vein thrombo-sis in the light of the literature, which is one of the rarely seen emergencies of urology.
Keywords: acute pain; color doppler ultraso-nography; venous thrombosis; testicular diseases