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Comparison between thermography and venous scintigraphy of the scrotum in the diagnosis of varicocele

Authors:	F Comhaire M Vandeweghe M Simons

Institution:	Department Internal Medicine, Section Endocrinology, State University, Ghent, Belgium;Department of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, State University, Ghent, Belgium

Abstract:	Fifty-one consecutive infertile men were examined for the presence of (sub)clinical varicocele with both scrotal thermography and venous radionuclide scintigraphy. Venous scintigraphy with 99^mTC yielded false negative results in about half of the patients suspected of varicocele because of clinical findings and/or abnormal scrotal thermography. Venous scintigraphy cannot serve as an alternative for scrotal thermography for the detection of spermatic venous reflux in varicocele.

Keywords:	varicocele male infertility thermography tecnetium perlechnetate scrotal scanning