Amoebic ulcer of the male genitala: A rare case report

Amoebic ulcer of the penis is a very rare clinical entity. We report a case of amoebic ulcer of the glans penis in a 47-year-old male homosexual, symptomatic with severe pain and foul-smelling hemopurulent discharge of acute onset. He had received systemic antibiotics like ciprofloxacin and azithrom...

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Autores principales: Mohanty, Indrani, Mohanty, Prasenjeet, Patnaik, Satyadarshi, Panda, Pritilata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3122587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21716788
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.75009
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Mohanty, Prasenjeet
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Panda, Pritilata
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description Amoebic ulcer of the penis is a very rare clinical entity. We report a case of amoebic ulcer of the glans penis in a 47-year-old male homosexual, symptomatic with severe pain and foul-smelling hemopurulent discharge of acute onset. He had received systemic antibiotics like ciprofloxacin and azithromycin prior to presentation with no improvement. Diagnosis was confirmed by wet mount microscopic examination of the discharge. The patient responded well to a course of metronidazole.
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spelling pubmed-31225872011-06-28 Amoebic ulcer of the male genitala: A rare case report Mohanty, Indrani Mohanty, Prasenjeet Patnaik, Satyadarshi Panda, Pritilata Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Case Report Amoebic ulcer of the penis is a very rare clinical entity. We report a case of amoebic ulcer of the glans penis in a 47-year-old male homosexual, symptomatic with severe pain and foul-smelling hemopurulent discharge of acute onset. He had received systemic antibiotics like ciprofloxacin and azithromycin prior to presentation with no improvement. Diagnosis was confirmed by wet mount microscopic examination of the discharge. The patient responded well to a course of metronidazole. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3122587/ /pubmed/21716788 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.75009 Text en © Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS 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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