MALE REPRODUCTIVE Flashcards
THE TESTICLE IS SURROUNDED BY A FIBROUS CAPSULE
TUNICA ALBUGINEA
____ _____ IS SONOGRAPHICALLY SEEN AS AN HYPERECHOIC LINEAR BAND EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY WITHIN THE TESTIS
MEDIASTINUM TESTIS
THE ____ ____ IS AN ANASTAMOSING NETWORK OF A DELICATE TUBULES LOCATED IN THE HILUM OF THE TESTICLE (MEDIASTINUM TESTIS)
RETE TESTIS
THE ____ ____ CARRY THE SEMINAL FLUID FROM THE RETE TESTIS TO THE EPIDIDYMIS
EFFERENT DUCTULES
THE ____ ____ , A REMNANT OF THE MULLERIAN DUCT, IS A SMALL OVOID STRUCTURE LOCATED BENEATH THE HEAD OF THE EPYDIDYMIS
APPENDIX TESTIS
TORSION OF THE APPENDIX TESTES CAN OCCUR IN BOYS AGED 7-12 RESULTING IN A
BLUE DOT SIGN
THE _____ IS A LAYER OF A MUSCLE FIBERS,LYING BENEATH THE SCROTAL SKIN AND DIVIDING THE SCROTUM INTO TWO CHAMBERS
DARTOS
THE _____ ____ IS A SACCULAR EXTENSION OF THE PERITONEUM INTO THE SCROTAL CHAMBERS
TUNICA VAGINALIS
THE TESTICULAR ARTERY DIVIDES INTO THE _____ AND THE ______ (INTRATESTICULAR) BRANCHES
CAPSULAR, CENTRIPETAL
MOST EXTRATESTICULAR MASSES ARE BENIGN, BUT THE MAJORITY OF INTRATESTICULAR LESIONS ARE
MALIGNANT
MOST MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS ARE _____ECHOIC
HYPO
TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS ARE THE MOST COMMON MALIGNANCY IN MEN ___ -_____ YEARS OF AGE
15-35
___ ___ TUMORS ARE THE MOST COMMON TESTICULAR CANCERS
GERM CELL
____ IS THE MOST COMMON GERM CELL TYPE FOUND IN BOTH PURE SEMINOMA AND MIXED GERM CELL TESTICULAR MASSES
SEMINOMA
MOST COMMON RISK FACTORS OF SEMINOMA IS
CRYPTORCHIDISM (UNDESCENDED TESTICLES)
___ IS ASSOCIATED WITH NONSEMINOMAS
AFP
___ IS SEEN IN BOTH SEMINOMAS AND NONSEMINOMAS
HCG
___ ______ TUMORS ARE THE MOST COMMON TESTICULAR TUMOR IN INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN. ASSOCIATED WITH ELEVATED AFP
YOLK SAC
THIS TUMOR PRODUCES TESTOSTERONE RESULTING IN PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY
-MAY BE PURE NON-GERM CELL OR MIXED
LEYDIG CELL TUMOR
_____ CYSTS HAVE AN ECHOGENIC CAPSULE OR ONION RING PATTERN FORMED BY MULTIPLE LAYERS OF KERATIN
- “BOW TIE” CENTRAL ECHOGENIC PATTERN
EPIDERMOID CYSTS
90% OF VARICOCELES ARE ON THE ___ SIDE
LEFT
_____ ARE THE MOST COMMON CORRECTABLE CAUSE OF MALE INFERTILITY
VARICOCELES
THE MOST COMMON EXTRATESTICULAR TUMOR IS THE
ADENOMATOID TUMOR
_____ ______ IS THE MOST COMMON CONDITION THAT CAUSES ACUTE SCROTAL PAIN
ACUTE EPIDIDYMITIS
EPIDIDYMITIS IS USUALLY CAUSED BY STDS _____ AND _______ IN MEN UNDER 35
CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHEA
EPIDIDYMITIS IS USUALLY CAUSED BY ____ IN PUBERTAL BOYS AND MEN OLDER THAN 35
UTI
DECREASING ____ WILL BETTER OPTIMIZE SLOW BLOOD FLOW TO R/O COMPLETE TORSION
PRF
______ TESTICULAR TORSION OCCURS OUTSIDE OF THE TUNICA VAGINALIS
EXTRATESTICULAR
THE MOST COMMON LOCATION OF THE CRYPTORCHID TESTIS IS IN THE
INGUINAL CANAL
____ IS A CONGENITAL DUPLICATION OF THE TESTIS
POLYORCHIA
PATIENTS WITH CRYPTORCHIDISM HAVE AN INCREASED RISK OF DEVELOPING
- INFERTILITY AND CANCER ARE COMPLICATIONS OF CRYPTORCHIDISM
MALIGNANCY
___ IS AN ERECTION THAT LASTS FOR MORE THAN 4 HOURS AND IS USUALLY PAINFUL
PRIAPISM
_____ DISEASE IS CAUSED BY SCAR TISSUE, CALLED PLAQUE, THAT FORMS INSIDE THE PENIS
PEYRONIES
WHEN SCANNING IN THE ANATOMICAL POSITION THE _____ ______ IS DIRECTLY UNDER THE TRANSDUCER
CORPUS SPONGIOSUM
