[Tumors of the testis. Correlations between echographic, macroscopic and histological features in 48 cases]

The authors retrospectively reviewed the ultrasonographic findings of 48 histologically confirmed testicular neoplasms in order to analyse the echomorphologic findings and identify any typical patterns. A wide spectrum of US features was observed for testicular tumors, corresponding to the different macromorphologic parenchymal textures of the various neoplasms. US was extremely useful for differentiating testicular tumors from non-neoplastic scrotal pathologies. US could neither distinguish the only benign lesion nor classify histologically malignant neoplasms. US was 100% accurate in the evaluation of testicular tumors, and allowed the identification of frequent typical patterns in some types of neoplasms.