Case report: Epididymal tuberculosis abscess in patient immunocompetent

Tuberculous epididymitis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A 30-year-old patient, with a comorbidity of atrial fibrillation, presented with pain in the left testicular for 1 year. On physical examination revealed a patient febrile at 39 °C with a pain, Scrotal swelling. Laboratory tests, a hy...

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Autores principales: Mostapha, Abdi El, Mahmoud, Al Afifi, Saleh, Nedjim Abdelkerim, Mohamed, Dakir, Adil, Debbagh, Rachid, Aboutaieb
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
Materias:
Inflammation and Infection
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7844566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33552914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2021.101573
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Sumario:Tuberculous epididymitis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A 30-year-old patient, with a comorbidity of atrial fibrillation, presented with pain in the left testicular for 1 year. On physical examination revealed a patient febrile at 39 °C with a pain, Scrotal swelling. Laboratory tests, a hyperleukocytosis at 25000/mm3, CRP at 160 mg/l. Scrotal ultrasound showed a Collection of fluid. Surgical exploration found an abscessed cyst at the expense of the epididymis. Due to the risk of epididymis neoplasia, surgery therapy ended up in the course of pharmacotherapy and not after 6 weeks as recommended by the studies.

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