Scrotal Pathology

Scrotal Pathology is a comprehensive practical guide to the management of patients who present with scrotal disorders. Introductory chapters consider imaging instrumentation, clinical evaluation, and clinical and imaging anatomy. The full range of disorde

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Series Editors Albert L. Baert Maximilian F. Reiser Hedvig Hricak Michael Knauth

Editorial Board Andy Adam, London Fred Avni, Brussels Richard L. Baron, Chicago Carlo Bartolozzi, Pisa George S. Bisset, Durham A. Mark Davies, Birmingham William P. Dillon, San Francisco D. David Dershaw, New York Sam Sanjiv Gambhir, Stanford Nicolas Grenier, Bordeaux Gertraud Heinz-Peer, Vienna Robert Hermans, Leuven Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Heidelberg Theresa McLoud, Boston Konstantin Nikolaou, Munich Caroline Reinhold, Montreal Donald Resnick, San Diego Rüdiger Schulz-Wendtland, Erlangen Stephen Solomon, New York Richard D. White, Columbus

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Michele Bertolotto • Carlo Trombetta Editors

Scrotal Pathology Foreword by M. F. Reiser

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Editors Michele Bertolotto, MD Department of Radiology University of Trieste Ospedale di Cattinara Strada di Fiume 447 34149 Trieste Italy e-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 0942-5373 ISBN 978-3-642-12455-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-12456-3

Carlo Trombetta, MD Department of Urology University of Trieste Ospedale di Cattinara Strada di Fiume 447 34149 Trieste Italy e-mail: [email protected]

e-ISBN 978-3-642-12456-3

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Genoa (Italy) is the city where we were born is our beginning (or ‘‘starting point’’ ?) and it continues to provoke us a particular feeling like that so well described by John Keats (1795–1821) ‘‘Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment For skies Italian, and an inward groan To sit upon an Alp as on a throne And half forget what world or worldling meant’’ Michele Bertolotto Carlo Trombetta

Foreword

Scrotal pathologies play an important role in the daily clinical practice. In order to correctly di