Ultrasensitive Doppler as a tool for the diagnosis of testicular ischemia during the Valsalva maneuver: a new way to explore varicoceles?

Acta Radiol. 2019 Aug;60(8):1048-1056. doi: 10.1177/0284185118810981. Epub 2018 Nov 5.

Laurence Rocher^{1

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4}, Jean-Luc Gennisson^{3

4}, Jérôme Baranger³, Antoine Rachas⁵, Aline Criton⁶, Vincent Izard⁷, Michele Bertolloto⁸, Marie-France Bellin^{1

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4}, Jean-Michel Correas^{3

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¹ 1 Department of Adult Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Bicetre University Hospital, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
² 2 Paris South Medical University, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
³ 3 Institut Langevin, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University, Paris, France.
⁴ 4 UMR8081, IR4M, Orsay Cedex, France.
⁵ 5 Service de Santé publique et d'épidémiologie, Hôpitaux Paris Sud, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
⁶ 6 Supersonic Imagine, Aix en Provence cedex, France.
⁷ 7 Department of Urology, Bicêtre University Hospital, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
⁸ 8 Uco di Radiologia, "Universita" di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
⁹ 9 Paris Descartes University, Paris, France.
¹⁰ 10 Department of Adult Radiology, Necker University Hospital, Paris, France.

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Keywords: Ultrafast imaging; male infertility; ultrasensitive Doppler; varicocele.

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