A child of 8 years old in the Children's City Clinical Hospital, a few days after surgery for cryptorchidism of one of the testicles an ultrasound scan of the scrotum with a Doppler was prescribed.
On ultrasound, the operated testicle is surrounded by thickened heterogeneous structure of tissues, on DPD (directional power doppler) blood flow in the epididymis and around the testicle, in PW (pulse wave spectral doppler) blood flow of the "tardus-parvus" type/waveform. In the unoperated testicle on DPD the same bloodfloew pattern, in the PW the blood flow is of the venous type and the altered arterial blood flow - with a short diastolic phase - ischemia of both testicles was suspected, presumably at the background of postoperative edema.
