[Sonography of the testes with a new 5 MHz transducer (author's transl)].

The article reports on sonography of the testicles with a 5 MHz transducer. Attention is drawn to the outstanding image quality even without a water flowpipe. Sonography offers a diagnostically wide scope in diseases of the testicle, varicocele being the only field where thermography continues to be the method of choice.