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Nuclear Medicine Methods in Scrotal Imaging

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Scrotal Pathology

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

Abstract

In patients with acute scrotal pain scrotal scintigraphy can be used to exclude torsion of the testicle, which presents with unilateral decrease in activity on the affected side.The role of nuclear medicine methods, however, faded in the last years after the introduction of high performance color Doppler ultrasound equipment. Lymphoscintigraphy can be used in patients with testicular cancer to demonstrate the lymphatic drainage pathway of the neoplasm. Several studies suggest that 18FDG-PET/CT might have a role in the staging germ cell tumors, in identification of recurrent/residual disease, to monitor the treatment response and during the follow-up. Other investigations, however, did not confirm these results.

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The authors thank Vincenzo Allegri, Valentina Ambrosini and Stefano Fanti of the Department of Nuclear Medicine, S. Orsola Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, for their contribution.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127, Palermo, Italy

    Giuseppe Caruso & Giuseppe Salvaggio

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Bari, Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124, Bari, Italy

    Artor Niccoli Asabella & Giuseppe Rubini

  3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Villa Sofia Hospital, Viale Strasburgo 233, 90146, Palermo, Italy

    S. Carluccio

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Caruso, G., Salvaggio, G., Asabella, A.N., Carluccio, S., Rubini, G. (2011). Nuclear Medicine Methods in Scrotal Imaging. In: Bertolotto, M., Trombetta, C. (eds) Scrotal Pathology. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2011_198

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