Unusual Case of Testicular Tuberculosis

We describe an unusual case of miliary tuberculous epididymo-orchitis following a BCG-therapy, mimicking malignancy at initial presentation. Genitourinary tuberculosis in a miliary pattern is rare and this case report emphasizes the importance of meticulous analysis of the patient’s clinical history...

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Autores principales: El Hamrouni, Ikram, Puttemans, Thierry, Dardenne, Emmanuel, Draguet, Anne-Philippe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5854244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30039009
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbr-btr.1142
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author El Hamrouni, Ikram
Puttemans, Thierry
Dardenne, Emmanuel
Draguet, Anne-Philippe
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description We describe an unusual case of miliary tuberculous epididymo-orchitis following a BCG-therapy, mimicking malignancy at initial presentation. Genitourinary tuberculosis in a miliary pattern is rare and this case report emphasizes the importance of meticulous analysis of the patient’s clinical history combined with imaging findings in order to ensure an adequate diagnosis and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-58542442018-07-23 Unusual Case of Testicular Tuberculosis El Hamrouni, Ikram Puttemans, Thierry Dardenne, Emmanuel Draguet, Anne-Philippe J Belg Soc Radiol Case Report We describe an unusual case of miliary tuberculous epididymo-orchitis following a BCG-therapy, mimicking malignancy at initial presentation. Genitourinary tuberculosis in a miliary pattern is rare and this case report emphasizes the importance of meticulous analysis of the patient’s clinical history combined with imaging findings in order to ensure an adequate diagnosis and treatment. Ubiquity Press 2017-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5854244/ /pubmed/30039009 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbr-btr.1142 Text en Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5854244/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30039009
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbr-btr.1142
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