Incidental Finding of Varicocele Detected on a Blood-Pool Image on Tc-99m HMDP Bone Scintigraphy

• Published in: Clinical nuclear medicine Vol. 25; no. 11; pp. 947 - 948
• Main Authors: MINOVES, MONTSE, BASSA, PEDRO, CLEMENTE, ANTONIO, RIVAS, AMELIA, RIERA, EDUARDO, SETOAIN, JAVIER, COSTANSA, JOSE M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc 01-11-2000; Hagerstown, MD Lippincott
• Subjects: Adolescent; Biological and medical sciences; Bone and Bones - diagnostic imaging; Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics; Humans; Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects); Male; Male genital diseases; Medical sciences; Non tumoral diseases; Osteitis - diagnostic imaging; Osteoarticular system. Muscles; Pain - etiology; Pubic Bone; Radionuclide Imaging; Radionuclide investigations; Radiopharmaceuticals; Technetium Tc 99m Medronate - analogs & derivatives; Varicocele - diagnostic imaging; Radionuclide study; Human; Varicocele; Male; Asymptomatic; Technetium; Scintigraphy; Case study; Adolescent; Medical imagery; Diagnosis; Bone; Male genital diseases; Testicular diseases; Semiology
• ISSN: 0363-9762; 1536-0229
• DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200011000-00031

Bone scintigraphy was performed in a 16-year-old male football player who had a 2-month history of left inguinal pain to identify possible osteitis pubis. The blood-pool image on bone scintigraphy revealed a focal area of increased activity in the left hemiscrotal region, extending proximally to the area of the left iliac vessels. Testicular ultrasonography confirmed the presence of a left testicular varicocele.