Testicular Trauma In A Tertiary Hospital In The Metropolitan Re-gion Of Paraíba Valley, Brazil

Testicular trauma is a cause of morbidity in patients of all age groups, especially among young people. The Paraíba Valley Regional Hospital (PVRH) is a reference in the care of polytraumatized patients and because it is located in a strategic region being cut by major highways. A retrospective analysis of the medical records of patients submitted to unilateral orchiectomy, bilateral orchiectomy and scrotum exploration was performed at the PVRH in a period of 4 years. Within this database, 11 patients submitted to these procedures due to traumatic etiology were found. Orchiectomy was the predominant treatment in the case series reported here (72.7%). The therapeutic approach adopted in this study differs from that reported in the literature, due to the time taken from the trauma until the therapeutic conduct was long, only 36.4% with treatment within 24 hours, thus making more conservative or even more reparative conducts unfeasible, as well as the severity of the injuries involved with the trauma with motorcycles Thus, studies that lead to the detailing of patients victims of testicular trauma in other institutions may contribute to a positive evolution in the quality of pre- and in-hospital care.