Interinstitutional Variability in Testicular Volumes and Varicocele Presence by Ultrasound: Surprising Discrepancies and Implications for Clinical Decision Making

Urology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1079-1084

  Sorokin, Igor ^a   Welliver, Charles ^a,b   Elebyjian, Leon ^b   Feustel, Paul J ^a   McCullough, Andrew ^a,b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Urological Institute of Northeastern New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TESTIS SIZE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VARICOCELE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; TESTIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTIS; VARICOCELE;

EID: 84933564913     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2015.02.018     Document Type: Article

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