Testicular tumour, could it be benign? A clinical conundrum

Testicular vasculitis (TV) is a cause of testicular infarction (TI) which can lead to significant morbidity and rarely mortality. Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN) is the most common vasculitis that leads to testicular infarction (TI). This case report describes the retrospective tissue diagnosis of autoim...

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Autores principales: Wood, Dale, Chua, Dorothy, Shepherd, Benjamin, Desai, Devang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Inflammation and Infection
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6796561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31641592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.100981
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description Testicular vasculitis (TV) is a cause of testicular infarction (TI) which can lead to significant morbidity and rarely mortality. Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN) is the most common vasculitis that leads to testicular infarction (TI). This case report describes the retrospective tissue diagnosis of autoimmune vasculitis in a middle aged Caucasian male who developed left unilateral orchalgia and a hard, palpable testicular mass.
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spelling pubmed-67965612019-10-22 Testicular tumour, could it be benign? A clinical conundrum Wood, Dale Chua, Dorothy Shepherd, Benjamin Desai, Devang Urol Case Rep Inflammation and Infection Testicular vasculitis (TV) is a cause of testicular infarction (TI) which can lead to significant morbidity and rarely mortality. Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN) is the most common vasculitis that leads to testicular infarction (TI). This case report describes the retrospective tissue diagnosis of autoimmune vasculitis in a middle aged Caucasian male who developed left unilateral orchalgia and a hard, palpable testicular mass. Elsevier 2019-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6796561/ /pubmed/31641592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2019.100981 Text en © 2019 Published by Elsevier Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6796561/
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