Table 4.
Characteristics of orchiectomy group and salvaged testis group
| Variables | Orchiectomy group
|
Salvaged-testis group
|
p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | |||
| Patients | 6 | 43 | ||||
| Age (years) | Mean ± SD | 19.2 ± 3.1 | 16.5 ± 6.5 | |||
| Median [range] | 18 [16–24] | 15 [4–46] | 0.080 | |||
| Body temperature (°C) | Mean ± SD | 36.8 ± 0.7 | 37.1 ± 0.3 | |||
| Median [range] | 37.2 [36.6–37.3] | 36.8 [35.5–39.8] | 0.311 | |||
| Time to operation (hours) | Median [range] | 19.7 [9.25–198] | 5.4 [1–22.2] | 0.002 | ||
| Degrees of torsion (°) | Median [range] | 360 [180–360] | 270 [90–720] | 0.483 | ||
| Laterality | Left | 5 | 83.3 | 30 | 69.8 | |
| Right | 1 | 16.7 | 13 | 30.2 | 0.490 | |