Giant scrotal lymphedema of unclear etiology: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Scrotal lymphedema is common in the tropics and subtropics. The giant variants can cause a lot of physical disability and psychological disturbances. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 25-year-old Nigerian male with giant scrotal lymphedema with severe debilitating symptoms, immobility an...

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Autores principales: Rahman, Ganiyu A, Adigun, Ismaila A, Yusuf, Ibrahim F, Aderibigbe, Adebiyi B, Etonyeaku, Amarachukwu C
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-7295
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author Rahman, Ganiyu A
Adigun, Ismaila A
Yusuf, Ibrahim F
Aderibigbe, Adebiyi B
Etonyeaku, Amarachukwu C
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Adigun, Ismaila A
Yusuf, Ibrahim F
Aderibigbe, Adebiyi B
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description INTRODUCTION: Scrotal lymphedema is common in the tropics and subtropics. The giant variants can cause a lot of physical disability and psychological disturbances. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 25-year-old Nigerian male with giant scrotal lymphedema with severe debilitating symptoms, immobility and emotional disturbance. He benefited from a modified Charles' procedure and reconstruction of the penile shaft using a split-thickness skin graft. CONCLUSION: Giant scrotal lymphedema related to poverty, ignorance and neglect, is amenable to surgery. Surgery provides a cosmetically acceptable and functionally satisfying outcome.
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spelling pubmed-27265342009-10-14 Giant scrotal lymphedema of unclear etiology: a case report Rahman, Ganiyu A Adigun, Ismaila A Yusuf, Ibrahim F Aderibigbe, Adebiyi B Etonyeaku, Amarachukwu C J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Scrotal lymphedema is common in the tropics and subtropics. The giant variants can cause a lot of physical disability and psychological disturbances. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 25-year-old Nigerian male with giant scrotal lymphedema with severe debilitating symptoms, immobility and emotional disturbance. He benefited from a modified Charles' procedure and reconstruction of the penile shaft using a split-thickness skin graft. CONCLUSION: Giant scrotal lymphedema related to poverty, ignorance and neglect, is amenable to surgery. Surgery provides a cosmetically acceptable and functionally satisfying outcome. BioMed Central 2009-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2726534/ /pubmed/19830170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-7295 Text en Copyright ©2009 Rahman et al; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_sort giant scrotal lymphedema of unclear etiology: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2726534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-7295
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