The boy entered the emergency department with abdominal pain and vomiting at the beginning of the year. The doctor initially thought it was appendicitis, but after that was ruled out, the patient was sent home.
Back home, the scrotum had swollen up. The family went to hospital in Katrineholm, where an ultrasound examination showed that the testicle had twisted.
The boy was sent back to Eskilstuna for emergency surgery. But it was too late – the testicle was dead and had to be removed.
“This is such a common acute condition that it should be part of basic knowledge to always rule out testicular torsion – and ovarian torsion in women – when it comes to these tricky, painful symptoms,” says chief physician Bettina Ouvrier at Mälar Hospital to Eskilstuna-Kuriren.
The Inspectorate for Care and Care (Ivo) will now investigate the matter further.