J Korean Soc Med Ultrasound.  1997 Dec;16(4):383-388.

Usefulness of Color Doppler Sonography in the Diagnosis of Scrotal Disease

• Cho SM
• Jee WH
• Choe BY
• Byun JY
• Baek JH
• Kim SY
• Park HS
• Kwon TA
• Shinn KS

Abstract

PURPOSE: To evaluate usefulness of color Doppler sonography of inflammatory scrotal disease.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Twenty-nine consecutive patients with scrotal pathology for the last two years were retropectively evaluated with color Doppler sonography. Scrotal vascularity and resistive index (RI) of intrascrotal artery were analyzed. Normal control subjects were healthy volunteers.
RESULTS
Twenty-four patients with epididymitis (n=28 cases) and epididymoorchitis (n=11) showed increased color flow in the epididymis and testis with decreased RI of intrascrotal artery (RI<0.7 in epididymis, RI<0.5 in testis). The RIs of the testicular artery in epididymoorchitis were significantly lower than those in normal control subjects and in epididymitis (p<0.001) while the RIs of the testicular artery in epididymitis and control subjects were similar(p> 0.5). One patient with epididymoorchitis had associated testicular microlithiasis.
CONCLUSION
Color Doppler sonography with spectral analysis could be an useful method in the diagnosis of various scrotal diseases.

MeSH Terms

Arteries
Diagnosis*
Epididymis
Epididymitis
Healthy Volunteers
Humans
Male
Pathology
Testis