Tuberculosis of the Spermatic Cord: Case Report()

The spermatic cord tuberculoma is uncommon, especially in its lower portion. Most cases were described in Japanese literature. We report a case of tuberculosis of the spermatic cord in a sexually active young man, revealed by a scrotal mass mimicking a tumor of the testicle and discuss the suitable...

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Autores principales: Benjelloun, Amine, Elktaibi, Abderrahim, Elharrech, Younes, Touiti, Driss, Ghoundale, Omar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Inflammation and Infection
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4782101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26958480
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2014.06.006
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author Benjelloun, Amine
Elktaibi, Abderrahim
Elharrech, Younes
Touiti, Driss
Ghoundale, Omar
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description The spermatic cord tuberculoma is uncommon, especially in its lower portion. Most cases were described in Japanese literature. We report a case of tuberculosis of the spermatic cord in a sexually active young man, revealed by a scrotal mass mimicking a tumor of the testicle and discuss the suitable diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, with preservation of the testes and the other sexual organs.
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spelling pubmed-47821012016-03-08 Tuberculosis of the Spermatic Cord: Case Report() Benjelloun, Amine Elktaibi, Abderrahim Elharrech, Younes Touiti, Driss Ghoundale, Omar Urol Case Rep Inflammation and Infection The spermatic cord tuberculoma is uncommon, especially in its lower portion. Most cases were described in Japanese literature. We report a case of tuberculosis of the spermatic cord in a sexually active young man, revealed by a scrotal mass mimicking a tumor of the testicle and discuss the suitable diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, with preservation of the testes and the other sexual organs. Elsevier 2014-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4782101/ /pubmed/26958480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2014.06.006 Text en © 2014 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
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Benjelloun, Amine
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Tuberculosis of the Spermatic Cord: Case Report()
title Tuberculosis of the Spermatic Cord: Case Report()
title_full Tuberculosis of the Spermatic Cord: Case Report()
title_fullStr Tuberculosis of the Spermatic Cord: Case Report()
title_full_unstemmed Tuberculosis of the Spermatic Cord: Case Report()
title_short Tuberculosis of the Spermatic Cord: Case Report()
title_sort tuberculosis of the spermatic cord: case report()
topic Inflammation and Infection
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4782101/
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