Table 3.
Summary of ultrasonographic (US) findings of testicular atrophy in mumps orchitis
| Patient No. | Age (yr) | Location | Initial US |
Follow-up US |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shape | Echogenicity | Vascularity grade | Shape | Echogenicity | Vascularity grade | |||
| 1 | 17 | Right | Elliptical | Hypoechoic | 2 | Oblong | Heterogeneously hypoechoic | 0 |
| 2 | 18 | Left | Elliptical | Heterogeneously hypoechoic | 2 | Oblong | Heterogeneously hypoechoic | 0 |
| 3 | 16 | Right | Elliptical | Hypoechoic | 2 | Oblong | Heterogeneously hypoechoic | 0 |
| 4 | 14 | Right | Elliptical | Hypoechoic | 2 | Oblong | Heterogeneously hypoechoic | 0 |
| 5 | 14 | Right | Elliptical | Heterogeneously hypoechoic | 2 | Oblong | Heterogeneously hypoechoic | 0 |
| 6 | 18 | Right | Elliptical | Hypoechoic | 2 | Elliptical | Heterogeneously hyperechoic | 1 |
| 7 | 24 | Right | Elliptical | Hypoechoic | 2 | Elliptical | Heterogeneously hyperechoic | 0 |
| 8 | 15 | Right | Elliptical | Hypoechoic | 2 | Oblong | Heterogeneously hypoechoic | 1 |
| Left | Elliptical | Hypoechoic | 2 | Oblong | Heterogeneously hypoechoic | 1 | ||
Vascularity was graded using a 3-point scale: 0, decreased vascularity compared with the contralateral normal testis; 1, similar vascularity to the contralateral normal testis; and 2, increased vascularity compared with the contralateral normal testis.