Real-time scrotal ultrasound of patients with varicoceles: correlation with impaired semen analysis.

Objectives: To evaluate the potential relationship between scrotal ultrasound findings and abnormal semen analysis.

Methods: Eighty-seven patients with varicoceles underwent semen analysis and scrotal sonography. On ultrasound, estimated testes volume and the largest pampiniform vein diameters on the affected side at rest and with Valsalva manoeuvre in both the supine and upright positions were examined.

Assessment of ureterovesical jet dynamics in obstructed ureter by urinary stone with color Doppler and duplex Doppler examinations.

This study was designed to evaluate ureterovesical jet dynamics in obstructed ureter and to compare it with those of contralateral unobstructed side. Forty-six patients with diagnosis of ureteral stone, based on imaging findings in computed tomography were enrolled in this study. The gray-scale ultrasound exam from both kidneys and urinary bladder was performed.

Knee sonography as a diagnostic test for medial meniscal tears in young patients.

Purpose: To prospectively evaluate whether age of patient affects diagnostic accuracy of sonography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of medial meniscal tears.

Methods: We prospectively evaluated 74 consecutive patients (54 males and 20 females), in two different groups [group A (37 patients ≤ 30 years; mean age: 23.5 ± 5 years) and group B (37 patients > 30 years; mean age: 43.