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Testicular Sarcoidosis: An Underdiagnosed Manifestation That Poses Unique Challenges

Testicular involvement is a rarely encountered complication of sarcoidosis. There are unique challenges involved when sarcoidosis affects the genitourinary system. These include differentiating the findings from testicular cancer, which often results in invasive procedures such as orchiectomies. It...

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Autores principales: Choksi, Ujval S, Singh, Gurdeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9199564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35720788
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25942
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description Testicular involvement is a rarely encountered complication of sarcoidosis. There are unique challenges involved when sarcoidosis affects the genitourinary system. These include differentiating the findings from testicular cancer, which often results in invasive procedures such as orchiectomies. It can also be a cause of secondary infertility in men. Additionally, it may also be underdiagnosed. Here, we describe a case where a patient showed a constellation of findings suggestive of sarcoidosis, along with testicular involvement at initial presentation. In this case, the diagnosis was made clinically with supporting laboratory, pathology, and ultrasound findings. The testicular findings were not biopsied, as the patient had easily accessible skin findings to confirm sarcoidosis. His testicular findings are continued to be monitored via ultrasound.
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spelling pubmed-91995642022-06-16 Testicular Sarcoidosis: An Underdiagnosed Manifestation That Poses Unique Challenges Choksi, Ujval S Singh, Gurdeep Cureus Dermatology Testicular involvement is a rarely encountered complication of sarcoidosis. There are unique challenges involved when sarcoidosis affects the genitourinary system. These include differentiating the findings from testicular cancer, which often results in invasive procedures such as orchiectomies. It can also be a cause of secondary infertility in men. Additionally, it may also be underdiagnosed. Here, we describe a case where a patient showed a constellation of findings suggestive of sarcoidosis, along with testicular involvement at initial presentation. In this case, the diagnosis was made clinically with supporting laboratory, pathology, and ultrasound findings. The testicular findings were not biopsied, as the patient had easily accessible skin findings to confirm sarcoidosis. His testicular findings are continued to be monitored via ultrasound. Cureus 2022-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9199564/ /pubmed/35720788 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25942 Text en Copyright © 2022, Choksi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/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 author and source are credited.
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Testicular Sarcoidosis: An Underdiagnosed Manifestation That Poses Unique Challenges
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title_full Testicular Sarcoidosis: An Underdiagnosed Manifestation That Poses Unique Challenges
title_fullStr Testicular Sarcoidosis: An Underdiagnosed Manifestation That Poses Unique Challenges
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title_short Testicular Sarcoidosis: An Underdiagnosed Manifestation That Poses Unique Challenges
title_sort testicular sarcoidosis: an underdiagnosed manifestation that poses unique challenges
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9199564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35720788
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25942
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