Ultrasound Finding in a Cohort of Iraqi Patients with Hematospermia: a Cross Sectional Study Abdulsattar Osamah Ayad1,* Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Babylon University 1Consultant Radiologist in Hilla Teaching Hospital at Radiology Department *Corresponding author: Osamah Ayad Abdulsattar, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Babylon University, Consultant Radiologist in Hilla Teaching Hospital at Radiology Department
Online published on 2 February, 2019. Abstract The goal of this article is to demonstrate the lesions which were detected by TRUS in sufferers with hematospermia. This cross sectional study included 60 Iraqi patients suffering from urogenital manifestation and all has been diagnosed to have macro-or microscopic hematospermia. The age range of those patients was 39 to 67 years. The study started at June 2017 and ended at May 2018. Those patients were attending the urology unit at Al-Hilla Teahcing hospital, Babylon province, Al-Hilla City, Iraq. They were all examined by trans-rectal ultrasound (TRUS). The ultrasound examination revealed the following causes with their corresponding rates: Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), infammatory conditions whether prostatic, seminal vesicle or both, calculi in the ejaculatory ducts or the inside the prostate and cystic lesions whether lateral, midline or para-median, 43.3%, 36.7%, 13.3% and 6.7%, respectively. Top Keywords Hematospermia, transrectal ultrasound, Iraq. Top |