Reliability of Echo-Color-Doppler in the differential diagnosis of the "acute scrotum". Our experience

Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 66-68

  Dell'Atti, Lucio ^a   Fabiani, Andrea ^a   Marconi, Andrea ^a   Mantovani, Paolo ^a   Muzzonigro, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute orchialgia; Echocolor Doppler; Testicular torsion

Indexed keywords

ACUTE SCROTUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PAIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RELIABILITY; SCROTUM DISORDER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTIS TORSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCROTUM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 17644371715     PISSN: 11243562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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