Nonpenetrating Gunshot Injury as a Cause of Testicular Rupture

  • Willis, Donald L.
  • Finkbeiner, Alex E.
  • Redman, John F.

  • From the Department of Urology, University of Arkansas College of Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas

Accepted April 6, 1988.

Journal of Urology 140(6):p 1543-1544, December 1988. | DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(17)42102-1

ABSTRACT

We report 2 cases of testicular rupture owing to a nonpenetrating gunshot injury. Immediate surgical exploration on the basis of a large painful scrotum of acute onset accorded a correct diagnosis and appropriate treatment.

Copyright © 1988 by the American Urological Association, Inc.