Benign and malignant epididymal masses evaluated with scrotal sonography: Clinical and pathologic review of 85 patients

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1195-1202

  Alleman, Wade G ^a   Gorman, Brian ^a,b   King, Bernard F ^a   Larson, Dirk R ^a   Cheville, John C ^a   Nehra, Ajay ^a  

^a Department of Radiology ^*

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Paratesticular mass; Scrotal sonography

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; COLOR; DOPPLER EFFECT; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

EPIDIDYMIS; MALIGNANT DISEASE; NEGATIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE; PARATESTICULAR MASS; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; SCROTAL SONOGRAPHY; SONOGRAPHIC APPEARANCE; SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CALCIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMIS DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCROTUM; SOLID TUMOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 48949088462     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2008.27.8.1195     Document Type: Article

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