https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2014.4.378

Incidentally detection of non-palpable testicular nodules at scrotal ultrasound: What is new?

Vol. 86 No. 4 (2014)
Submitted: January 23, 2015
Accepted: January 23, 2015
Published: December 30, 2014
Testicular lesions, Ultrasound, Contrast enhanced ultrasound, Elastography
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Massimo Valentino
massimo.valentino@ass3.sanita.fvg.it
UO di Radiologia, Ospedale S. Antonio, Tolmezzo, Udine, Italy.
Michele Bertolotto
Dipartimento di Radiologia, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
Pasquale Martino
UO di Urologia I Universitaria, Università di Bari, Italy.
Libero Barozzi
UO di Radiologia, Ospedale Maggiore, Bologna, Italy.
Pietro Pavlica
GVM Care and Research, Villalba Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
The increased use of ultrasound in patients with urological and andrological symptoms has given an higher detection of intra-testicular nodules. Most of these lesions are hypoechoic and their interpretation is often equivocal. Recently, new ultrasound techniques have been developed alongside of B-mode and color-Doppler ultrasound. Although not completely standardized, contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and tissue elastography (TE), added to traditional ultrasonography, can provide useful information about the correct interpretation of incidentally detected non-palpable testicular nodules. The purpose of this review article is to illustrate these new techniques in the patient management.

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Valentino, M., Bertolotto, M., Martino, P., Barozzi, L., & Pavlica, P. (2014). Incidentally detection of non-palpable testicular nodules at scrotal ultrasound: What is new?. Archivio Italiano Di Urologia E Andrologia, 86(4), 378–382. https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2014.4.378

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