ISOLATED TUBERCULAR TESTICULAR ABSCESS WITH PYOCELE: AN EXTREMELY RARE PRESENTATION
Keywords:
Tuberculosis, testicular abscess, pyocele
Abstract
Despite the genitourinary tract being one of the most common sites affected by extrapulmonary TB, isolated testicular TB is very rare and presentation as acute abscess formation with pyocele is hardly mentioned in literature.
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2. Wolf JS, McAninch JW. Tubercular epididymo-orchitis: Diagnosis by fine-needle aspiration. J Urol. 1991;145:836–38.
3. Wise GJ, Shteynshlyuger A. An update on lower urinary tract tuberculosis. Curr Urol Rep. 2008;9:305-13.
4. Viswaroop BS, Kekre N, Gopalakrishnan G. Isolated tuberculous epididymitis: A review of forty cases. J Postgrad Med. 2005;51:109-11.
5. Cek M, Lenk S, Naber KG, Bishop MC, Johansen TE, Botto H, et al. EAU Guidelines for the Management of Genitourinary Tuberculosis. European Urology. 2005;48;353–62.
6. Garbyal RS, Sunil K. Diagnosis of isolated tuberculous orchitis by fine-needle aspiration cytology. Diagn Cytopathol. 2006;34:698–700.
7. Shah H, Shah K, Dixit R et al (2004) Isolated tuberculous epididymo-orchitis. Indian J Tuberc 51:159–162.
8. Biswas M, Rahi R, Tiwary SK et al (2006) Isolated tuberculosis of testis. Kathmandu Univ Med J 13:98–99.
How to Cite
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Sharma D, Nair R, Koduru V, K V, Vadhar BD. ISOLATED TUBERCULAR TESTICULAR ABSCESS WITH PYOCELE: AN EXTREMELY RARE PRESENTATION. Med. res. chronicles [Internet]. 2015Apr.15 [cited 2024Apr.30];2(2):222-5. Available from: https://medrech.com/index.php/medrech/article/view/75
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