A 25-year review of the acute scrotum in children

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1696-1698

  Sidler, D ^a   Brown, R A ^a   Millar, A J W ^a   Rode, H ^a   Cywes, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; ORCHIECTOMY; PAIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCROTUM; TESTIS TORSION; TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPIDIDYMITIS; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCROTUM; SPERMATIC CORD TORSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031297999     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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