Hello, students. My name is Mike Estefan, and I want to thank you for joining me today on this

month's deep dive episode on the EM Clerkship podcast. Today, we're going to dive into testicular

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And now, back to the episode.

Testicular Torsin, one of the handful of diagnoses that is extremely time-sensitive to make in the ED.

Remember, time is testicle. We're going to start off by talking about the epidemiology of testicular torsion, followed

by the clinical presentation, and finally end by discussing diagnostics and treatment.

This will be a shorter deep dive than most prior episodes, just by nature of the topic.

So, without further ado, let's dive in.

Testicular pain accounts for about 1% of ED visits annually. There's about one case of

testicular torsion per 20,000 boys under the age of 18 annually.

And here's something that I didn't know until I was preparing for this episode.

There's actually a bimodal age distribution for testicular torsion.

I think we all knew that this is relatively common during the ages of puberty, like 12 to 18.

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