Brucella orchitis: a rare cause of testicular mass: report of a case.
Links Brucella orchitis: a rare cause of testicular mass: report of a case. Hizli F, Uygur MCInt Urol Nephrol. 2006 Dec;38(3-4):637-639. Epub 2006 Nov 18. Links Brucella orchitis: a rare cause of testicular mass: report of a case. Hizli F, Uygur MC. Department of Urology, Oncology Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, fatihhizli33@yahoo.com. Brucellosis is a multiorgan infectious disease. The genitourinary system is affected in 2-20% of the cases and the most common form is orchitis. Rarely, patients may present with a testicular mass and it must be distinguished from malignant processes. We report brucellar orchitis, a rare cause of testicular mass, in a 22-year-old man. We described the clinicopathological features of this rare entity and reviewed the literature. PMID: 17115293 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] Related Links [Brucellar orchiepididymitis] [Actas Urol Esp. 2004] PMID: 15666522 Brucella orchitis: a rare cause of testicular enlargement. [J Urol. 1990] PMID: 2313817 Brucellar orchitis in Innerwest Anatolia Region of Turkey. A report of 12 cases. [Urol Int. 2002] PMID: 12119436 Relapse of brucellosis simulating testis tumor. [Int J Urol. 2004] PMID: 15285765 [[Brucellar orchiepididymitis with abscess] [Arch Esp Urol. 1997] PMID: 9395418 See all Related Articles... Display Summary Brief Abstract AbstractPlus Citation MEDLINE XML UI List LinkOut ASN.1 Related Articles Cited Articles Cited in Books CancerChrom Links Domain Links 3D Domain Links GEO DataSet Links Gene Links Gene (GeneRIF) Links Genome Links Project Links GENSAT Links GEO Profile Links HomoloGene Links Nucleotide Links Nucleotide (RefSeq) Links OMIA Links OMIM (calculated) Links OMIM (cited) Links BioAssay Links Compound Links Compound via MeSH Substance Links Substance via MeSH PMC Links Cited in PMC PopSet Links Probe Links Protein Links Protein (RefSeq) Links SNP Links Structure Links Taxonomy via GenBank UniGene Links UniSTS Links Show 5 10 20 50 100 200 500 Sort by Pub Date First Author Last Author Journal Send to Text File Printer Clipboard E-mail Order .
Department of Urology, Oncology Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, fatihhizli33@yahoo.com.
Brucellosis is a multiorgan infectious disease. The genitourinary system is affected in 2-20% of the cases and the most common form is orchitis. Rarely, patients may present with a testicular mass and it must be distinguished from malignant processes. We report brucellar orchitis, a rare cause of testicular mass, in a 22-year-old man. We described the clinicopathological features of this rare entity and reviewed the literature.
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