Extratesticular Scrotal Masses: Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation

Radiographics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 215-240

  Woodward, Paula J ^a   Schwab, Cornelia M ^a   Sesterhenn, Isabell A ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Scrotum, diseases, 847.20, 847.214, 847.22, 969.756; Scrotum, MR, 847.12141; Scrotum, neoplasms, 847.318, 847.32, 847.34; Scrotum, US, 847.1298

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADENOMATOID TUMOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DERMATOFIBROMA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; INGUINAL HERNIA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; LYMPHOMA; MESOTHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORCHITIS; POLYORCHIDISM; PSEUDOTUMOR; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SCROTUM DISORDER; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS DISEASE; VARICOCELE; EPIDIDYMIS; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCROTUM;

EPIDIDYMIS; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; SCROTUM; SPERMATIC CORD;

EID: 0242409673     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.231025133     Document Type: Review

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