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A mother brings her son, age 15, to the emergency department. He has been complaining of constant genital pain for 24 hours. The diagnosis is testicular torsion. What is the most serious possible complication?

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Testicular infarction may be defined as the medical condition marked by the acute scrotal pain. This condition can be diagnosed by the medical technique of the sonography.

The testicular torsion can cause the vascular that comprises of testes in 3 to 6 hours and if remains continuous lead to the torsion infarction. This might also results in the atrophy and may also result in the loss of the biological process known as spermiogenesis.

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