Acute painful scrotum

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 349-363

  Dogra, Vikram ^a   Bhatt, Shweta ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE;

ABSCESS; APPENDIX; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CELLULITIS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; FOURNIER GANGRENE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; INGUINAL HERNIA; ORCHITIS; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCROTAL PAIN; SCROTUM DISORDER; TESTIS INJURY; TESTIS TORSION; TESTIS TUMOR; VARICOCELE;

ACUTE DISEASE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORCHITIS; PAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCROTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPERMATIC CORD TORSION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VARICOCELE;

EID: 2342452472     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2003.12.002     Document Type: Review

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