Guest guest Posted April 25, 2001 Report Share Posted April 25, 2001 In a message dated 04-25-01 10:07:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lehmanent@... writes: << Well y'all try this one, the doc says: PREOP DX: Right testicular torsion. POSTOP DX: Same. The patient's scrotum was incised and the right testicle was " untorsed " . I was unable to even figure out how to restructure the sentence. >> Ahh, another one of those back formations we were discussing yesterday. I looked in Tessier's Surgical word book and I didn't find untorsed but I did find detorsed , so I'd type " the testicle was detorsed. " Hope this helps Jan " Typing is my life " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 25, 2001 Report Share Posted April 25, 2001 In a message dated 4/25/01 10:07:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lehmanent@... writes: << Well y'all try this one, the doc says: PREOP DX: Right testicular torsion. POSTOP DX: Same. The patient's scrotum was incised and the right testicle was " untorsed " . I was unable to even figure out how to restructure the sentence. Any thoughts? L. >> Well, this is tricky. He says in preop dx that there is right testicular torsion. Then he says it was " untorsed. " I would take untorsed to mean that there was no torsion, which is contradictory to the preop dx. I would flag it. Peggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 25, 2001 Report Share Posted April 25, 2001 Well y'all try this one, the doc says: PREOP DX: Right testicular torsion. POSTOP DX: Same. The patient's scrotum was incised and the right testicle was " untorsed " . I was unable to even figure out how to restructure the sentence. Any thoughts? L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 25, 2001 Report Share Posted April 25, 2001 Thank you all for your ideas on untorsed. I flagged it and left it for the QA people to sort out. The poor kid (18yom) ended up having to have an orchiectomy. So I'm not sure the purpose of detorsing it in the first place if all he did was end up removing it? But, oh well, who am I to question such things? L. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2001 Report Share Posted April 26, 2001 In a message dated 04-25-01 9:54:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, lehmanent@... writes: << The poor kid (18yom) ended up having to have an orchiectomy. So I'm not sure the purpose of detorsing it in the first place if all he did was end up removing it? But, oh well, who am I to question such things? >> They untorsed it to see if they could save it, but apparently it wasn't possible and that's why he ended up losing it. I have a Rottweiler and when I got her I bought a book about Rottweilers. There was a warning in there about feeding any large dog a large meal and then letting them do any exercise for fear of them getting something called stomach torsion. That's where the stomach flips over and cuts off the blood supply (any torsion will do that). The dog can die if it isn't treated immediately, and that's usually why... they can untorse the stomach, but depending upon how long the stomach went without blood supply it might not be able to be saved, in which case the dog will die... they can't live without a stomach for obvious reasons, never mind the fact that while it's torsed it presses on other vital structures and damages them as well. Large dog owners are strongly advised to feed their dogs 2 smaller meals instead of one large one for this reason. I frequently watch Animal Planet and there was a program on there about a dog who suffered from stomach torsion. The vets tried very hard but were unable to save the dog, even after surgery to untorse the stomach. In the case of the torsed testicle, apparently it had been torsed for too long and even though it was untorsed, there was too much damage to save it. Hope this helps Jan " Typing is my life " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2001 Report Share Posted April 26, 2001 In a message dated 04-26-01 9:54:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lehmanent@... writes: << I suffer from extreme curiousity and this helped a lot. >> Most MTs do, it's what makes us good MTs Jan " Typing is my life " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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