Sign up with Facebook
- Health A to Z
- Healthy Living
Advertisement
Varicocele Learning Center
Tests could include:
 |
The health care provider will examine the groin area, including the scrotum and testicles. The doctor may be able to feel a nontender, twisted mass along the spermatic cord. (It feels like a bag of worms.)
|
|
During a physical examination, a health care provider studies a patient's body to determine the presence or absence of physical problems. A typical physical examination includes: Inspection (looking at the body; Palpation (feeling the body with ha...
|
|
The health status of populations and of individuals is assessed for many reasons. Assessing needs for care helps guide the allocation of resources— diagnostic assessments guide treatment, prognostic assessments contribute to planning, and assessin...
|
|
The Valsalva maneuver is performed by attempting to forcibly exhale while keeping the mouth and nose closed. It is used as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the condition of the heart and is sometimes done as a treatment to correct abnormal heart rhyt...
|
|
A venogram is a way to look at veins in your body using x-rays and a special dye called contrast. It is most often use to look at veins in the legs and belly area (abdomen. Veins are not normally seen in an x-ray. That is why the special dye is us...
|
|
Venography is an x-ray test that provides an image of the leg veins after a contrast dye is injected into a vein in the patient's foot.
|
|
Phlebography is an x-ray test that provides an image of the leg veins after a contrast dye is injected into a vein in the patient's foot.
|
|
Phlebography is an x ray test that provides an image of the leg veins after a contrast dye is injected into a vein in the patient's foot.
|
 |
Testicle ultrasound is an imaging test that examines the testicles and other parts inside the scrotum. The testicles are the male reproductive organs that produce sperm and the hormone testosterone. They are located in the scrotum, the flesh-cover...
|
|
Scrotal ultrasound is an imaging technique used for the diagnosis of suspected abnormalities of the scrotum and testes. It uses harmless, high-frequency sound waves to form an image. The sound waves are reflected by scrotal tissue to form a pictur...
|
 |
Ultrasound involves the use of high-frequency sound waves to create images of organs and systems within the body.
|
|
Ultrasonography is a diagnostic technique that involves directing high frequency sound waves at tissues in the body to generate images of anatomical structures. Ultrasonography is also called sonography, diagnostic sonography, and echocardiography...
|
|
A thyroid ultrasound, or sonogram, is a diagnostic imaging technique used to evaluate the structure of the thyroid gland . The thyroid is an endocrine gland, which means that it releases its secretions directly into the bloodstream or lymph. It co...
|
|
Ultrasonography is the study of internal organs or blood vessels using high-frequency sound waves. The actual test is called an ultrasound scan or sonogram. Duplex ultrasonography uses Doppler technology to study blood cells moving through major v...
|
|
The use of ultrasound to obtain diagnostic images is referred to as diagnostic sonography. Since diagnostic sonography utilizes a nonionizing form of energy, there are no known bioeffects. Thus, diagnostic sonography is applied to a large spectrum...
|
 |
Diagnostic medical sonography, or ultrasound, is a technique using high frequency sound to create images of specific areas of the body to diagnose various pathologies. The diagnostic medical sonographer performs examinations, records anatomic cond...
|
