Evaluation of scrotal masses

American Family Physician

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1165-1170

  Tiemstra, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Kapoor, Shailendra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ANATOMY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; HERNIA STRANGULATION; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; INGUINAL HERNIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORCHITIS; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSORIASIS; REVIEW; SCROTAL SWELLING; SCROTUM CARCINOMA; SCROTUM DISORDER; SEBACEOUS CYST; SKIN DEFECT; SPERMATOCELE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TESTIS; TESTIS CARCINOMA; TESTIS TORSION; TUNICA VAGINALIS; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; VARICOCELE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCROTUM;

ALGORITHMS; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; SCROTUM;

EID: 58149185788     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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