Penile cancer after a tick bite: A possible association

Penile cancer is a rare cancer in Western countries, but is more common in parts of the developing world. Usually, it is associated with older uncircumcised men who have a long-term phymotic preputium. Here, we report a case of penile cancer in a circumcised patient, occurring 3 months after a tick...

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Autores principales: Ivanovski, Ognen, Saidi, Skender, Shabani, Bashkim, Gurmeshevski, Slobodan, Pejkov, Risto, Komina, Selim, Gavrilovska-Brazanov, Aleksandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8323426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34377488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X211036779
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author Ivanovski, Ognen
Saidi, Skender
Shabani, Bashkim
Gurmeshevski, Slobodan
Pejkov, Risto
Komina, Selim
Gavrilovska-Brazanov, Aleksandra
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Saidi, Skender
Shabani, Bashkim
Gurmeshevski, Slobodan
Pejkov, Risto
Komina, Selim
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description Penile cancer is a rare cancer in Western countries, but is more common in parts of the developing world. Usually, it is associated with older uncircumcised men who have a long-term phymotic preputium. Here, we report a case of penile cancer in a circumcised patient, occurring 3 months after a tick bite on the head of the penis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report that suggests a possible association between Lyme disease and occurrence of “de novo” penile cancer. Further studies are needed to confirm this hypothesis.
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spelling pubmed-83234262021-08-09 Penile cancer after a tick bite: A possible association Ivanovski, Ognen Saidi, Skender Shabani, Bashkim Gurmeshevski, Slobodan Pejkov, Risto Komina, Selim Gavrilovska-Brazanov, Aleksandra SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report Penile cancer is a rare cancer in Western countries, but is more common in parts of the developing world. Usually, it is associated with older uncircumcised men who have a long-term phymotic preputium. Here, we report a case of penile cancer in a circumcised patient, occurring 3 months after a tick bite on the head of the penis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report that suggests a possible association between Lyme disease and occurrence of “de novo” penile cancer. Further studies are needed to confirm this hypothesis. SAGE Publications 2021-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8323426/ /pubmed/34377488 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X211036779 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Gavrilovska-Brazanov, Aleksandra
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8323426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34377488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X211036779
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