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The US reports and hospital charts of these patients were retrospectively reviewed.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results.<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>After clinical and radiologic evaluation, torsion was excluded in 110 patients without surgical exploration. In 3 patients, intermittent testicular torsion was diagnosed and in 17 patients, emergent exploration was performed for US diagnosis of testicular torsion. Twenty-five patients (22.7%) were subsequently lost to follow-up. Follow-up of 85 patients with US negative for torsion (mean length of follow-up = 466.9 days) revealed no testicular atrophy in 83. Two patients underwent delayed orchiectomy\/contralateral orchiopexy for missed testicular torsion. Of 17 patients with US positive for torsion, 9 underwent orchiectomy for a necrotic torsed testis, 7 viable torsed testes were found, and 1 torsed appendix testis was found. Therefore, color Doppler US for the equivocal acute scrotum yielded a 1% false-positive rate, sensitivity of 88.9%, and specificity of 98.8%.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion.<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>When faced with ruling out testicular torsion, it is necessary to integrate the multiple pieces of patient data, knowing that each piece of data may have inaccuracies. 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