Epididimo-Orchitis

  • Etiology: Staphylococcus aureus / Escherichia coli / viruses (in addition to sexually transmitted diseases)
  • US: hypervascularity of affected side when compared with contralateral side

Cases of Epididimo-Orchitis

US of epididymitis secondary in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
Transverse color doppler US of the scrotum shows enlargement and hypervascularity of the bilateral crescent shaped epididymides when compared to their respective round testicles, to which they are lateral in position.