ArticleUltrasonography (Seoul, Korea)2020
Testicular stiffness in varicocele: evaluation with shear wave elastography.
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- The role of testicular stiffness derived from shear wave elastography in the assessment of spermatogenesis in men with varicocele.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Nomograms for Predicting Postoperative Sperm Improvements in Varicocele Patients.European urology open science · 2024Article
- Testicular Evaluation Using Shear Wave Elastography (SWE) in Patients with Varicocele.Journal of imaging · 2023Article
- Engineered Immature Testicular Tissue by Electrospun Mats for Prepubertal Fertility Preservation in a Bioluminescence Imaging Transgenic Mouse Model.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Elastography in the Urological Practice: Urinary and Male Genital Tract, Prostate Excluded-Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Shear-wave elastography for the assessment of testicular involvement of hematologic malignancies in children and young adults: a feasibility study.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2022Article
- Application of real-time shear wave elastography in the assessment of male infertility.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2022Article
- The usefulness of elastography in the evaluation and management of adult men with varicocele: A systematic review.Arab journal of urology · 2021Article
- Shear Wave Elastography for Assessment of Testicular Stiffness in Patients with Varicocele: A Prospective Comparative Study.Journal of medical ultrasoundArticle
- Testicular volume in infertile versus fertile white-European men: a case-control investigation in the real-life setting.Asian journal of andrologyArticle
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Abstract
purposeThis study was conducted to evaluate the potential role of shear wave elastography (SWE) in the evaluation of testes in patients with varicocele.
methodsA total of 116 testes of 58 patients with left-sided varicocele and 58 testes of 29 age-matched healthy controls were included in the study. The patients' testes were classified into groups A (normospermic) and B (oligospermic) based on the presence of oligospermia. The mean SWE values and volume of the testes with varicocele were compared with the contralateral normal testes of the patients and the testes of healthy controls.
resultsThe mean SWE value of the left testes in groups A (4.77±1.16 kPa) and B (6.15±1.96 kPa) exceeded that of the healthy controls (3.79±0.94 kPa) (P<0.001). The mean SWE value of the left testes in group B (6.15±1.96 kPa) exceeded that of group A (4.77±1.16 kPa) (P=0.002). No correlation was observed between testicular stiffness and the grade of varicocele (r=0.102, P=0.423).
conclusionThe testes with varicocele were stiffer than the contralateral testes and the testes of healthy controls, and SWE might play an auxiliary role to conventional ultrasonography in assessing pathologic alterations in the testis owing to varicocele.
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