Zone of reduced echogenicity in the prostate

    Child 3 months age in the public clinic for routine screening, visually the skin in different parts of the body with a rash.

    On ultrasound, an an- / hypoechoic area up to 10x3x8 mm is visualized along the anterior surface of the prostate gland, without bloodflow at CFM(differential diagnosis: infection, hypertrophy of the fibromuscular stroma, etc.)

    Recommended consultation with an urologist, general urinalysis.

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    "Anterior fibromuscular stroma hypertrophy Axial T2WI, of two different patients that show the normal (red arrow) and hypertrophic (blue arrow) anterior fibromuscular stroma."

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