Does color Doppler sonography improve the clinical assessment of patients with acute scrotum?

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 120-124

  Pepe, Pietro ^a   Panella, Paolo ^a   Pennisi, Michele ^a   Aragona, Francesco ^a  

^a CANNIZZARO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute scrotum; CDS and scrotal pain; Orchiepididymitis; Scrotal trauma; Testicular torsion

Indexed keywords

ACUTE SCROTUM; CDS AND SCROTAL PAINS; ORCHIEPIDIDYMITIS; SCROTAL TRAUMA; TESTICULAR TORSION;

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; DOPPLER EFFECT; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; SURGERY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ULTRASONICS;

ACUTE SCROTUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMITIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENCHYMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTAL PAIN; TESTIS; TESTIS TORSION; TUNICA ALBUGINEA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCROTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERMATIC CORD TORSION;

EID: 33748707169     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2006.04.016     Document Type: Article

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