ANALYSIS OF SCROTAL SWELLINGS IN SBMCH Authors: Suprajha KS , KS RAVISHANKAR, C SRINIVASAN AND JAYAKANTHAN
ABSTRACT
One of the most common presenting complaints we encounter in the surgical clinic are scrotal
swellings. There has been a change in trend in the past decade in the incidence of scrotal swellings.
Earlier, studies show that hydrocele was one of the most common causes of scrotal swellings, but, in the
recent past, we observe an increase in the incidence of Epididymo-orchitisas evidenced by this study.
METHODS: The study is a prospective study conducted in the OPD of Sree Balaji Medical College
Hospital, Chennai of patients presenting with complaints of scrotal swelling between September 2020 to
December 2020. 50 patients were selected at random for the purpose of this study. For all patients
clinical study was done through questionnaires and clinical examination.
RESULTS:
We observed in our study that most common cause of scrotal swelling was epididymo-orchitis. The
Second and third most common cause of scrotal swelling was hydrocele and varicocele respectively.
There were other causes such as epididymitis, orchitis, epididymal cyst. The age group of 31-40 years of
age was the group with the highest incidence of scrotal swellings followed by the group of 21- 30 years of
age. The duration of symptoms varied from few hours to a few days to months in a few cases. The shortest duration of symptoms detected by this study was 6 hours (Torsion testis) and longest duration
was 203 days (varicocele).
CONCLUSION: The Most common cause of scrotal swelling was epididymo-orchitis with an increased
incidence of varicocele cases. There was also a decreased incidence of hydrocele cases. Most common
age group of scrotal swelling is 31-40 years and the presenting symptom was swelling associated with
pain occasionally. No obvious predisposing factors were detected.
Most of the scrotal swelling cases treated surgically than conservatively
Keywords: Scrotal swellings, Hydrocele, Varicocele, pyocoele Publication date: 01/11/2021 https://ijbpas.com/pdf/2021/November/MS_IJBPAS_2021_57445.pdfDownload PDFhttps://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.11.57445
