Sonography of benign intrascrotal lesions.
Ultrasound plays an important role and adds essential information in diagnosing benign intrascrotal lesions. Characterization of benign intrascrotal lesions with sonography, in combination with clinical assessment, can lead to nonsurgical management or testicular sparing surgery. We present important sonographic features of benign intrascrotal lesions, including extratesticular lesions: adenomatoid tumors, papillary cystadenomas, spermatoceles, hydroceles, varicoceles, hernias; and intratesticular lesions: tunica albuginea cysts, testicular simple cysts, epidermoid cysts, tubular ectasia of the rete testis, intratesticular varicoceles, adrenal rest tumors, and splenogonadal fusion. The goal of this review is to provide the radiologist with a better understanding of benign lesions that occur in the scrotum.
Bhatt
Shweta
S
Deparment of Imaging Sciences University of Rochester School of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642, USA.
Rubens
Deborah J
DJ
Dogra
Vikram S
VS
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005832:Genital Diseases, Male / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012611:Scrotum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014463:Ultrasonography