Imaging in Testicular Tumors

Testicular cancer is the most frequent cancer of the young population between 15-35 years range.Ultrasound (US) is used primarily for imaging and sometimes magnetic resonance imaging is added.Although the pre-pubertal testicular tumors are mostly benign, the postpubertal ones are predominantly malignant and are frequently germ cell tumors.US is very valuable in the differential diagnosis of testicular masses that are not well defined by palpation and the clues from anamnesis and laboratory data do not help