[The value of echography in scrotal contusions. Personal experience apropos of 20 cases].

We report a serial case study of 20 patients presenting scrotal contusions and for whom an emergency scrotal ultrasonography was performed. This investigation is not a luxury. It was a useful confirmation diagnostic tool for hematocele in 1/3 of cases (7/20) as well as for the detection of associated epididymal and or testicular lesions. In 2/3 of cases (13/20) it detected lesions unsuspected by clinical examination so that a therapeutic decision was taken promptly. Scrotal echography is therefore a useful emergency tool not for major trauma where the surgical decision is evident, but for apparently benign trauma where the clinical examination is currently deficient and needs provided a trained ultrasonography operator is available.