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Isolated tuberculous orchitis: A mimicker of testicular malignancy

Isolated tuberculous orchitis is a rare entity. The coexistence of tuberculosis of the testis with filarial worm infestation is even more rare. In this report, we present a case of tuberculous involvement of the testis, associated with filarial worm infestation in the spermatic cord that presented a...

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Autores principales: Paul, Joseph, Krishnamoorthy, Sriram, Teresa, Marie, Kumar, Santosh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20877610
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.65404
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Krishnamoorthy, Sriram
Teresa, Marie
Kumar, Santosh
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description Isolated tuberculous orchitis is a rare entity. The coexistence of tuberculosis of the testis with filarial worm infestation is even more rare. In this report, we present a case of tuberculous involvement of the testis, associated with filarial worm infestation in the spermatic cord that presented as a testicular tumor. A 55-year-old male presented with unilateral testicular swelling of four months duration. As the clinical evaluation was suggestive of testicular malignancy, he underwent a right high orchidectomy. The histopathology report revealed isolated tuberculous orchitis without epididymal involvement along with filarial infestation of the spermatic cord.
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spelling pubmed-29385562010-09-28 Isolated tuberculous orchitis: A mimicker of testicular malignancy Paul, Joseph Krishnamoorthy, Sriram Teresa, Marie Kumar, Santosh Indian J Urol Case Report Isolated tuberculous orchitis is a rare entity. The coexistence of tuberculosis of the testis with filarial worm infestation is even more rare. In this report, we present a case of tuberculous involvement of the testis, associated with filarial worm infestation in the spermatic cord that presented as a testicular tumor. A 55-year-old male presented with unilateral testicular swelling of four months duration. As the clinical evaluation was suggestive of testicular malignancy, he underwent a right high orchidectomy. The histopathology report revealed isolated tuberculous orchitis without epididymal involvement along with filarial infestation of the spermatic cord. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2938556/ /pubmed/20877610 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.65404 Text en © Indian Journal of Urology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Paul, Joseph
Krishnamoorthy, Sriram
Teresa, Marie
Kumar, Santosh
Isolated tuberculous orchitis: A mimicker of testicular malignancy
title Isolated tuberculous orchitis: A mimicker of testicular malignancy
title_full Isolated tuberculous orchitis: A mimicker of testicular malignancy
title_fullStr Isolated tuberculous orchitis: A mimicker of testicular malignancy
title_full_unstemmed Isolated tuberculous orchitis: A mimicker of testicular malignancy
title_short Isolated tuberculous orchitis: A mimicker of testicular malignancy
title_sort isolated tuberculous orchitis: a mimicker of testicular malignancy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2938556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20877610
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.65404
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