Talk:Acute scrotum

Who coined?

The first reference I can find on PubMed is PMID 547647. Somehow that doesn't seem to be first, given its low rate of citations on Google Scholar (eight). Could be a textbook instead. JFW | T@lk 22:36, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

There's a digit missing. PMID 5476476 (Moharib and Krahn 1970) is about acute scrotum. Here are the earliest I found, without using the ISI database:

• NH Moharib and HP Krahn (1970) Acute Scrotum in Children with Emphasis on Torsion of Spermatic Cord, Journal of Urology, October 1970, pp. 601-603.
• Peter G. Jones (1970) Clinical Paediatric Surgery: Diagnosis and Management, J. Wright and Sons, Ltd., Bristol, 511 pages.

Jones (1970), p. 231-232 or so, has a section titled The `acute scrotum' [sic]. However, there is also this:

• Christopher Heath (1883) The student's guide to surgical diagnosis, J. & A. Churchill, London, 2nd edition, 240 pages.

Heath (1883) defines acute orchitis, which seems to mean exactly the same thing. See also orchitis. Coinage is hard to prove, unless there is a contemporary attestation. How about saying "the earliest in print may be so-and-so"? But what if the original coinage was in a language other than English?

--Una Smith (talk) 03:06, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Merge

Merged with testicular pain as not a significant enough of a topic to be separate from such.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:55, 17 January 2010 (UTC)