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Sonographic appearance of a calcified simple epidermoid cyst of the testis

✍ Scribed by Mark D. Meiches; Pamela Nurenberg


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
272 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
0091-2751

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✦ Synopsis


Simple epidermoid cysts of the testis are rare, benign lesions. The reported sonographic findings are varied, but to date there has been no report of an epidermoid cyst presenting as an echogenic mass with dense acoustic shadowing. We report such a case.

CASE REPORT

A 52-year-old white man with prostatitis experienced vague, intermittent, right testicular pain. He had no prior trauma, swelling, redness, or weight loss. Physical examination revealed a discrete, rock-hard, nontender right testicular mass. The left testis was normal. No adenopathy was palpated. Real-time ultrasonography of the scrota1 contents using a 7.5-MHz transducer (Sie-


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