title: [Incidence of varicocele measured by echoscopy].
abstract: Varicocele should be diagnosed and treatment should be started in boys under 10-14, because at an older age it will interfere with the development of the testicle. The objective of the study is to establish the rate of varicocele. The study material and methods. One hundret of patients aged from 20 to 87 (SD=17) have been studied: the thickness of veins of plexus pampiniformis was measured by echoscopy, funiculus spermaticus was palpated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Varicocele was diagnosed in 24 (24%) of patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The incidence rate of this disease is high.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Urology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania.
authors.forename: Ramūnas
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mickevicius
authors.forename: Paulius
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bosas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015331:Cohort Studies; D006801:Humans; D008097:Lithuania / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014646:Varicocele / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology*