"Doctor, my scrotum is whistling" -whors, what do you say?Intersection

In a emergency room in Dayton, Ohio, a patient told the doctor about his bizarre symptoms: he heard his scrotum "whistling".

The scrotum that can "whistle", this may be the most outrageous patient in the career of a doctor's career

The scrotum will blow a whistle, what is the outrageous situation? To be exactly speaking, he refers to the one that gas emitted during the small hole -on his scrotum, there is just such an opening.

For more than a year, the 72 -year -old male patient has been plagued by epididymitis of recurrence, and has not improved after several rounds of antibiotic treatment. He underwent the cutting of the left scrotum 5 months ago, but the wound had not healed after surgery. It seems that the accumulated air was discharged from the body through this open wound, which made a sound.

However, how can there be air in the scrotum?

In addition to the scrotum of hissing, patients still have difficulty breathing and facial swelling. Faced with the doctor's inquiry, he resolutely stated that he had never injected air into the scrotum, and had never performed other strange self -healing operations.

In the examination of the body, the doctor found that the part of his own body was far from the scrotum: from the head, front chest to the thigh and the perineum. The slight sound of sound sounds like a bundle of hair in the ears.

X -ray and CT examinations show that the air accumulated in patients should actually originate from pneumothorax. Simply put, pneumothorax is a "lung leaky" disease: lung tissue is damaged, and then the air in the alveoli enters the pleura cavity along the pressure gradient. Pneumonia is sometimes caused by lung disease or trauma, and sometimes it occurs on its own without an exact cause. "Leakage" can cause lung collapse and difficulty breathing. At the same time, the air that enters the pleural cavity may continue to spread along the fascia in the human body, causing a widespread subcutaneous tissue qi.

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Prior to this, there were a few cases of scrotal swelling in the world -but only this time, the diffusion air in the organization happened to encounter an open wound. The accumulated gas was released again, and a confusing whistle was produced.

After intubation and exhaust treatment, the patient's pneumothorax was relieved after 3 days of hospitalization. However, the swelling accumulated in his thighs, perineum and scrotum lasted "abnormal time". He underwent scrotal surgery again and finally removed bilateral testicles. Nearly two years after the first consultation, the CT examination confirmed that the gas in his subcutaneous tissue finally completely disappeared.

Local doctors recorded this unprecedented strange case and published it on the American Journal of Case Reports [1].

references

[1] https://amjcaseEp.com/abstract/index/idart/936441

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