Hill Travis W, Mills Lisa D, Butts Christine J
Section of Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA.
J Emerg Med. 2012 Mar;42(3):279-82. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2008.09.023. Epub 2009 Feb 6.
Pneumoscrotum is a rare disease entity in which gas is present in the scrotum. It has been described after diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, as well as with disease states. The entity itself is a benign condition, but is associated with both incidental and life-threatening conditions.
We discuss the pathophysiology and associated conditions of pneumoscrotum.
We report a case of pneumoscrotum after jejunum perforation.
Even though pneumoscrotum is a benign, rare condition, its mere presence should signal the possibility of a severe, life-threatening disease process within the peritoneum or retroperitoneum.
