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Essential considerations are: whether a mass is in the testis or not, whether the painful testis has increased or decreased vascularity, and whether the presenting symptoms, such as trauma, are masking an underlying lesion.
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Allan PL, Baxter GM, Weston MJ, editors. Clinical ultrasound. 3rd ed. London: Churchill Livingstone; 2011: Chapter 31.
Baxter G, Sidhu P, editors. Ultrasound of the urogenital system. Stuttgart: Thieme; 2006: Chapter 11.
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Weston, M.J. (2012). How to Ultrasound a Painful Testis and a Testicular Mass. In: Payne, S., Eardley, I., O'Flynn, K. (eds) Imaging and Technology in Urology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2422-1_8
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