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Diagnostic role of gray-scale and shear-wave elastography in pediatric patients with undescended testes: a prospective controlled study.

İsmail YurtseverŞeyma YıldızSamil AmirjanovCan Yilmaz YozgatSerdar BalsakAbdüsselim Adil PekerBahar AtasoyAhmet Berk ErolÖzlem Tolukİbrahim Aydoğdu
Published in: Journal of ultrasonography (2024)
The study provides interesting findings in that it proposes an alternative non-invasive method for the assessment of testicular tissue in undescended testes. We used shear wave elastography to compare the stiffness of normal testes in both heathy patients and in the contralateral healthy testes of boys with undescended testes, with the values obtained for the undescended testes reflecting the level of fibrosis of the parenchyma. Another outcome of this study was observed in patients with unilateral undescended testes, where the normally descended testes showed increased shear wave elastography values, which could be an early indication of parenchymal change.
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  • ejection fraction