Testicular schistosomiasis mimicking hydrocele in a child: a case report

Schistosomiasis is a disease of profound public health importance worldwide. Testicular schistosomiasis (TS) is however still considered as a rare entity despite the burden of the disease. We report a case of a 9 year old male who presented with features suggestive of testicular hydrocele. The sperm...

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Autores principales: Oguntunde, Olubanji Ajibola, Ikhisemojie, Sylvester, Sonusi, Sandra Esse, Oyebode, Adeyemi, Abdulkareem, Biade, Banjo, Adekunbiola Aina
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7250213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32537060
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.35.56.16322
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author Oguntunde, Olubanji Ajibola
Ikhisemojie, Sylvester
Sonusi, Sandra Esse
Oyebode, Adeyemi
Abdulkareem, Biade
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Ikhisemojie, Sylvester
Sonusi, Sandra Esse
Oyebode, Adeyemi
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description Schistosomiasis is a disease of profound public health importance worldwide. Testicular schistosomiasis (TS) is however still considered as a rare entity despite the burden of the disease. We report a case of a 9 year old male who presented with features suggestive of testicular hydrocele. The spermatic cord and testis were seen as thickened lesion on examination and a biopsy taken revealed calcified ova of Schistosoma haematobium. This is being reported to enhance increased suspicion amongst surgeons in cases of testicular masses within endemic settings like Nigeria.
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spelling pubmed-72502132020-06-11 Testicular schistosomiasis mimicking hydrocele in a child: a case report Oguntunde, Olubanji Ajibola Ikhisemojie, Sylvester Sonusi, Sandra Esse Oyebode, Adeyemi Abdulkareem, Biade Banjo, Adekunbiola Aina Pan Afr Med J Case Report Schistosomiasis is a disease of profound public health importance worldwide. Testicular schistosomiasis (TS) is however still considered as a rare entity despite the burden of the disease. We report a case of a 9 year old male who presented with features suggestive of testicular hydrocele. The spermatic cord and testis were seen as thickened lesion on examination and a biopsy taken revealed calcified ova of Schistosoma haematobium. This is being reported to enhance increased suspicion amongst surgeons in cases of testicular masses within endemic settings like Nigeria. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7250213/ /pubmed/32537060 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.35.56.16322 Text en © Olubanji Ajibola Oguntunde et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. 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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Sonusi, Sandra Esse
Oyebode, Adeyemi
Abdulkareem, Biade
Banjo, Adekunbiola Aina
Testicular schistosomiasis mimicking hydrocele in a child: a case report
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title_fullStr Testicular schistosomiasis mimicking hydrocele in a child: a case report
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title_short Testicular schistosomiasis mimicking hydrocele in a child: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7250213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32537060
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.35.56.16322
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