{"id":940,"date":"2019-11-07T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol\/2019\/11\/07\/improving-your-report-on-us-of-varicoceles\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:32:57","slug":"improving-your-report-on-us-of-varicoceles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol\/highlights\/improving-your-report-on-us-of-varicoceles\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving your report on US of varicoceles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Varicoceles are very common and sometimes not properly reported. Nonetheless, US examination allows for going much further than detection. The ESUR group provides useful hints for better reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs00330-019-06280-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ultrasound evaluation of varicoceles: guidelines and recommendations of the European Society of Urogenital Radiology Scrotal and Penile Imaging Working Group (ESUR-SPIWG) for detection, classification, and grading<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:\u00a0<\/strong>Simon Freeman, Michele Bertolotto, Jonathan Richenberg, Jane Belfield, Vikram Dogra, Dean Y. Huang, Francesco Lotti, Karolina Markiet, Olivera Nikolic, Subramaniyan Ramanathan, Parvati Ramchandani, Laurence Rocher, Mustafa Secil, Paul S. Sidhu, Katarzyna Skrobisz, Michal Studniarek, Athina Tsili, Ahmet Tuncay Turgut, Pietro Pavlica, Lorenzo E. Derchi &amp; the members of the ESUR-SPIWG WG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varicoceles are very common and sometimes not properly reported. 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