Scrotal Ultrasonography in Varicocele.
- Author:
Jun CHEON
1
;
Sung Kun KOH
Author Information
1. Department of Uroloy, Capital Armed, Forces General Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine*, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Scrotal Ultrasonography;
Varicocele
- MeSH:
Diagnosis;
Humans;
Infertility;
Infertility, Male;
Male;
Physical Examination;
Ultrasonography*;
Varicocele*
- From:Korean Journal of Urology
1990;31(5):702-706
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Varicocele is now a well established common cause of the male infertility and is a curable disease. Scrotal ultrasonography is a simple and reliable method for the diagnosis of varicocele because of noninvasiveness to the patient. Thus the urologists and radiologists try to use various diagnostic tools including physical examination to confirm significant varicoceles objectively. We used scrotal ultrasonography as a objective diagnostic method to evaluate 19 varicocele patients. Of 19 patients 17 had e palpable left varicocele clinically and a patient had bilateral varicoceles. All the clinical varicoceles were confirmed readily by sonography. By the sonography one case was demonstrated a left varicocele as a subclinical patient with infertility.
