TY - JOUR
T1 - Epididymitis in Children and Adolescents
T2 - A 20-Year Retrospective Study
AU - Likitnukul, S.
AU - McCracken, G. H.
AU - Nelson, J. D.
AU - Votteler, T. P.
PY - 1987/1
Y1 - 1987/1
N2 - We identified 35 patients who had epididymitis from 1965 to 1984 by hospital chart review. The common clinical presentation was swelling, pain, and erythema. Twenty-two patients had onset of symptoms within 24 hours of hospital admission. Surgery was performed in 31 patients, 22 of whom had cultures taken from the epididymis at the time of surgery. Bacterial agents were recovered from cultures of 13 patients: coagulase-negative staphylococci were identified in nine patients. In two patients, a polymicrobic cause was found. Six patients had associated urologic abnormality. Three patients had concurrent urinary tract infection. Urologic investigation should be undertaken in children younger than 2 years old and in older patients with recurrent episodes suspected to be due to reflux of urine and associated genitourinary abnormality.
AB - We identified 35 patients who had epididymitis from 1965 to 1984 by hospital chart review. The common clinical presentation was swelling, pain, and erythema. Twenty-two patients had onset of symptoms within 24 hours of hospital admission. Surgery was performed in 31 patients, 22 of whom had cultures taken from the epididymis at the time of surgery. Bacterial agents were recovered from cultures of 13 patients: coagulase-negative staphylococci were identified in nine patients. In two patients, a polymicrobic cause was found. Six patients had associated urologic abnormality. Three patients had concurrent urinary tract infection. Urologic investigation should be undertaken in children younger than 2 years old and in older patients with recurrent episodes suspected to be due to reflux of urine and associated genitourinary abnormality.
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U2 - 10.1001/archpedi.1987.04460010041019
DO - 10.1001/archpedi.1987.04460010041019
M3 - Article
C2 - 3788880
AN - SCOPUS:0023200573
SN - 0002-922X
VL - 141
SP - 41
EP - 44
JO - American Journal of Diseases of Children
JF - American Journal of Diseases of Children
IS - 1
ER -