Accuracy of Ultrasonography in Diagnosis of Testicular Rupture After Blunt Scrotal Trauma

Urology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-56

  Guichard, Guillaume ^a,b   El Ammari, Jamal ^a,b   Del Coro, Carlos ^c   Cellarier, Damien ^a,b   Loock, Pierre Yves ^a,b   Chabannes, Eric ^a,b   Bernardini, Stéphane ^a,b   Bittard, Hugues ^a,b   Kleinclauss, François ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c Hospital Auxilio Mutuo   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMIS; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCROTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTIS INJURY; TUNICA ALBUGINEA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HEMATOCELE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORCHIECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; SCROTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 38749121769     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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