Diffusion-Weighted MRI of the Testes in Patients with Varicocele: A Preliminary Study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 324-328

  Karakas, Ekrem ^a   Karakas, Omer ^a   Cullu, Nesat ^b   Badem, Omer Faruk ^c   Boyaci, Fatima Nurefsan ^a   Gulum, Mehmet ^a   Cece, Hasan ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MUGLA SITKI KOCMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c OSM Middle East Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted MRI; Testis; Varicocele

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BONFERRONI TEST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MALE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTICULAR FIBROSIS; TESTIS DISEASE; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VARICOCELE; VEIN DIAMETER;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84892710663     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.13.10594     Document Type: Article

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