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Ep 144 Testicular Torsion: A Diagnostic Pathway

Emergency Medicine Cases

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Torsion, Dtorsion, and Mistortion

The sensitivity is 88 to 100% and the specificity is 90%. So decent numbers, I mean, those are decent sensitivities and specificities, but they're not 100%, which we would want to see. The cases I think that are really troublesome are the intermittent torsion, Dtorsion,. Two cases that I've been aware of that were cases of mistortion where in both cases it was a young person who did end up losing their testicle.

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