Sonographic findings of tuberculous vasitis.
The purpose of this series was to describe the sonographic findings of tuberculous vasitis. We conducted a retrospective analysis of 3 cases of tuberculous vasitis. The following grayscale and color Doppler sonographic features were analyzed: location, echogenicity of the lesion, epididymal or testicular involvement, presence of hydrocele, and blood flow within the lesion. All 3 patients had focal (n = 2) or multifocal (n = 1) involvement of the scrotal segment of the vas deferens. The sonographic findings for tuberculous vasitis were heterogeneously hypoechoic in all of the cases. On color Doppler sonography, no blood flow was identified within the lesions of the vas deferens. All 3 patients had tuberculous epididymitis in addition to tuberculous vasitis. Tuberculous vasitis presents with infection along with tuberculous epididymitis, and it appears as a heterogeneously hypoechoic lesion in the scrotal segment of the vas deferens adjacent to the epididymal tail.
Department of Radiology, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, 149 Sangil-Dong, Gangdong-Gu, Seoul 134-090, Korea. E-mail; dmy2988@yahoo.co.kr.
Dal Mo
DM
Yang
Hyun Cheol
HC
Kim
Sang Won
SW
Kim
Hyung Lae
HL
Lee
Gyeong Eun
GE
Min
Sung Jig
SJ
Lim
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004823:Epididymitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012611:Scrotum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014389:Tuberculosis, Male Genital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*; D014649:Vas Deferens / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*
genitourinary ultrasound; scrotum; tuberculosis; vas deferens