Painful testicular swelling: an unusual localization of sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by non-caseating epitheloid granulomas; whereas it usually involves the lungs and lymph nodes. Testicular sarcoidosis is extremely rare, having been reported to occur in 0.2% of all sarcoidosis patients. We describe a very unusual form of...
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| author | Karima Bouytse Hanane Haddaoui Jouda Benamour Jamal-Eddine Bourkadi |
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| description | Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by non-caseating epitheloid granulomas; whereas it usually involves the lungs and lymph nodes. Testicular sarcoidosis is extremely rare, having been reported to occur in 0.2% of all sarcoidosis patients. We describe a very unusual form of sarcoidosis of the testis, mimicking malignancy at initial presentation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a5351394ffd040be8f91910e5949140a2022-12-21T18:35:24ZengThe Pan African Medical JournalThe Pan African Medical Journal1937-86881937-86882020-07-013622210.11604/pamj.2020.36.222.2474924749Painful testicular swelling: an unusual localization of sarcoidosisKarima Bouytse0Hanane Haddaoui1Jouda Benamour2Jamal-Eddine Bourkadi3 Pneumo-Phtisiology Department, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Moulay Youssef Hospital, Rabat, Morocco Pneumo-Phtisiology Department, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Moulay Youssef Hospital, Rabat, Morocco Pneumo-Phtisiology Department, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Moulay Youssef Hospital, Rabat, Morocco Pneumo-Phtisiology Department, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Moulay Youssef Hospital, Rabat, Morocco Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by non-caseating epitheloid granulomas; whereas it usually involves the lungs and lymph nodes. Testicular sarcoidosis is extremely rare, having been reported to occur in 0.2% of all sarcoidosis patients. We describe a very unusual form of sarcoidosis of the testis, mimicking malignancy at initial presentation. https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/36/222/pdf/222.pdf sarcoidosistestisscrotal mass |
| spellingShingle | Karima Bouytse Hanane Haddaoui Jouda Benamour Jamal-Eddine Bourkadi Painful testicular swelling: an unusual localization of sarcoidosis The Pan African Medical Journal sarcoidosis testis scrotal mass |
| title | Painful testicular swelling: an unusual localization of sarcoidosis |
| title_full | Painful testicular swelling: an unusual localization of sarcoidosis |
| title_fullStr | Painful testicular swelling: an unusual localization of sarcoidosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Painful testicular swelling: an unusual localization of sarcoidosis |
| title_short | Painful testicular swelling: an unusual localization of sarcoidosis |
| title_sort | painful testicular swelling an unusual localization of sarcoidosis |
| topic | sarcoidosis testis scrotal mass |
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