Management of acute scrotum in children-the impact of Doppler ultrasound

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1377-1380

  Schalamon, Johannes ^a   Ainoedhofer, Herwig ^a   Schleef, Juergen ^a   Singer, Georg ^a   Haxhija, Emir Q ^a   Höllwarth, Michael E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute scrotum; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE SCROTUM; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; EPIDIDYMITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTAL PAIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS BLOOD FLOW; TESTIS TORSION; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCROTUM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33746055707     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2006.04.026     Document Type: Article

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