Findings of fat-suppressed T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of non-palpable testes

BJU International

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 290-294

  Kato, Toshiki ^a   Kojima, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kamisawa, Hideyuki ^a   Takeuchi, Mitsuru ^a   Mizuno, Kentaro ^a   Sasaki, Shigeru ^a   Kohri, Kenjiro ^a   Hayashi, Yutaro ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

cryptorchidism; diagnostic imaging; diffusion MRI; MRI; vanishing testis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTORCHISM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FAT SUPPRESSED WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORCHIDOPEXY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTORCHIDISM; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 78651091540     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2010.09513.x     Document Type: Article

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