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To the Editor: We read Dr. Ragozzino's account (March 18 issue)¹ of the recreational athlete who had acute scrotal injury after a seemingly benign session of physiotherapy. Our curiosity lay not with the proposed mechanism of injury but with the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a diagnostic tool.

We wonder whether MRI has a role in the diagnostic workup of acute scrotal swelling and pain. We are in an era in which cost constraints are of paramount concern. Would palpation, transillumination, or ultrasonography have been as useful diagnostically? We find it ironic that Dr. Ragozzino's correspondence was published . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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