Tactics of treatment of patients with testicular torsion

The article presents the results of surgical treatment of 36 men aged 18 to 35 years with testicular torsion who were treated at the urological clinic of the Alexandrovskaya Hospital from 2012 to 2017. Indications for surgical treatment were pains in the inguinal region, the absence or sharp decrease in blood flow below the site of the alleged testicular torsion by ultrasound dopplerography of the scrotum organs. Orchidpexy was performed in 8 patients, orchiepididimectomy was performed in 28 patients. The indication for orchidpexy was the viable testicle, which was observed with incomplete testicular torsion and its duration of less than 6 hours. Testicular prosthesis was performed in 11 patients.