Evaluation Of Scrotal Pathologies Using Ultrasound

Background: The scrotum and its contents are normally accessible for clinical examination under normal conditions. Physical examination may be limited by to tenderness or swelling. Gray scale and Doppler ultrasound imaging supplements the clinical examination, as an accurate means of evaluating diverse scrotal diseases. It permits differentiation between the lesions like torsion that require urgent surgical management from orchitis which can be managed conservatively. Objectives To study the pattern of distribution of non-traumatic scrotal diseases among 12 years or older patients attending the outpatient department of radiodiagnosis department Adichunchanagiri Hospital and Research centre, B.G. Nagara, Nagamangala Taluk, Mandya District to study the sonographic appearance of the spectrum of scrotal diseases. To establish the surgical or non-surgical method of treatment for the pathologies detected in the study subjects. Materials And Methods: The study was conducted on 73 patients presenting to the outpatient department of radiodiagnosis, Adichunchanagiri Hospital and Research Centre, B.G. Nagara, Nagamangala Taluk, Mandya District with symptoms pertaining to the scrotum during a period of 18 months. They were subjected to scrotal ultrasound examination. Frequency and proportion were calculated using Epi InfoTM for Windows version 7.