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01-09-2019 | External Post-Mortem Examination | Classics in Abdominal Radiology
Classics in abdominal radiology: a “scrotal pearl”
Published in: Abdominal Radiology | Issue 9/2019
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Natural pearls form when shelled mollusks lay down concentric layers of calcium carbonate in response to an internal irritant (Fig. 1). A “scrotal pearl” was first described in 1935 when a fibrinoid loose body was discovered in the scrotum of a patient during a postmortem examination [1]. Since then, these intrascrotal calculi have been described sonographically in numerous case reports and case series [2‐4]. One retrospective study found an incidence of 2.65% in 868 patients referred from urologic and surgical clinics [2].
Fig. 1
Picture of a black pearl in the shell of a pearl oyster. Downloaded from Wiki Commons March 28, 2019 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_black_pearl_and_a_shell.jpg)
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