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Murine Echocardiography and Ultrasound Imaging
Published on: August 9, 2010
Scrotal imaging in the Henoch-Schönlein syndrome
The Journal of Urology
|October 1, 1980
Abstract:
Testicular involvement in patients with Henoch-Schönlein syndrome may occur in as high as 15 per cent of the cases. Scrotal imaging is extremely accurate in differentiating hyperemia (vasculitis) from impairment of blood flow encountered in torsion of the spermatic cord, the most common cause of acute scrotal swelling in children.
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