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)