ReviewCancers2022
Testicular Germ Cell Tumours-The Role of Conventional Ultrasound.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Isolated testicular immunoglobulin G4-related disease mimicking malignancy: a rare case report.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- Multiparametric Ultrasound for Characterisation of Testicular Lesions: Beyond Orchiectomy.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Focal intratesticular lesions including spontaneous hematomas in the acute scrotum: the pivotal role of ultrasound and MRI in diagnosis and management-a pictorial review.Insights into imaging · 2026Article
- Construction and validation of a nomogram model for the differential diagnosis of primary testicular benign and malignant tumors.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Bilateral idiopathic synchronous testicular infarction mimicking malignancy: a case report.Urology case reports · 2026Article
- Abdominal disseminated lesions following surgery for a testicular mucinous cystic neoplasm initially diagnosed as mucinous cystadenoma: a case report and literature review.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
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- Tumor mutational burden, gene expression patterns, and immune-cell deconvolution in testicular germ cell tumors.Translational andrology and urology · 2025Article
- Deep learning-based super-resolution US radiomics to differentiate testicular seminoma and non-seminoma: an international multicenter study.Insights into imaging · 2025Article
- Testicular ultrasound: an emergency medicine perspective.Internal and emergency medicine · 2025Review
- Identification of testicular cancer with T2-weighted MRI-based radiomics and automatic machine learning.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- Updates on Imaging of Common Urogenital Neoplasms.Cancers · 2024Article
- Ultrasound-based deep learning radiomics nomogram for risk stratification of testicular masses: a two-center study.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2024Article
- Research Progress of PD 1/PD L1 Inhibitors in the Treatment of Urological Tumors.Current cancer drug targets · 2024Review
- Sonoelastography for Testicular Tumor Identification: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy.Cancers · 2023Review
- An Aberrant Seminoma as a Complication in an Undescended Testis: A Case Report and Review of Literature.Cureus · 2023Article
- Case report: Misdiagnosis of primary mucinous cystadenoma of the testicle by ultrasound.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Testicular tumours are the most common tumours found in young males and germ cell tumours account for 95% of testicular tumours. Ultrasound is the first-line radiological investigation for imaging of the testis. This article outlines how to undertake an ultrasound examination, including optimal patient position, scanning technique and imaging parameters. Classification of germ cell tumours is provided, and salient imaging features of different tumours are described. Difficulties and pitfalls of ultrasound are described, including tumours found after a trauma presentation, orchitis causing diagnostic difficulties and imaging of small testicular lesions. Other uses of ultrasound are outlined, including looking for a primary testicular tumour following the discovery of retroperitoneal lymph nodes, imaging when tumour-makers increase, local recurrence in the scrotum, and for solid organ biopsy in metastatic disease. Conclusion: Ultrasound remains the first-line of investigation for imaging of the testis, and conventional ultrasound still plays a large role in imaging. On ultrasound alone, accurate morphological characterisation of tumours remains a challenge, despite the imaging features that can be seen in different tumour types. Therefore, histology following orchidectomy of a germ cell tumour remains the gold standard for accurate tumour characterisation.
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