Sperm in peritoneal fluid from a man with ascites: a case report

INTRODUCTION: The finding of sperm in body fluids such as peritoneal fluid is unusual, and has been mostly described in female patients. CASE PRESENTATION: We are reporting the case of a 52-year-old man who presented with complaints of increased abdominal girth, weight gain and epigastric pain. He w...

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Autores principales: Olteanu, Horatiu, Harrington, Alexandra, Kroft, Steven H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-192
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Harrington, Alexandra
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description INTRODUCTION: The finding of sperm in body fluids such as peritoneal fluid is unusual, and has been mostly described in female patients. CASE PRESENTATION: We are reporting the case of a 52-year-old man who presented with complaints of increased abdominal girth, weight gain and epigastric pain. He was subsequently found to have spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and sperm in the peritoneal fluid. We describe the laboratory findings and clinical course in this patient. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first report of sperm in peritoneal fluid in a male patient.
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spelling pubmed-27831472009-11-26 Sperm in peritoneal fluid from a man with ascites: a case report Olteanu, Horatiu Harrington, Alexandra Kroft, Steven H Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: The finding of sperm in body fluids such as peritoneal fluid is unusual, and has been mostly described in female patients. CASE PRESENTATION: We are reporting the case of a 52-year-old man who presented with complaints of increased abdominal girth, weight gain and epigastric pain. He was subsequently found to have spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and sperm in the peritoneal fluid. We describe the laboratory findings and clinical course in this patient. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first report of sperm in peritoneal fluid in a male patient. BioMed Central 2009-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC2783147/ /pubmed/19946502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-192 Text en Copyright ©2009 Olteanu et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sperm in peritoneal fluid from a man with ascites: a case report
title Sperm in peritoneal fluid from a man with ascites: a case report
title_full Sperm in peritoneal fluid from a man with ascites: a case report
title_fullStr Sperm in peritoneal fluid from a man with ascites: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Sperm in peritoneal fluid from a man with ascites: a case report
title_short Sperm in peritoneal fluid from a man with ascites: a case report
title_sort sperm in peritoneal fluid from a man with ascites: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-192
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