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Coccidioidomycosis of the Epididymis
- Source :
- Journal of Urology. 130:978-979
- Publication Year :
- 1983
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1983.
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Abstract
- A rare case of coccidioidomycosis involving the epididymis is described and compared with the 12 clinically diagnosed cases reported in the literature. With 1 exception, the disease appeared to be limited to the genital organs and the adjacent tissue. Surgical excision of the involved tissue appeared to be curative. Bilateral epididymal involvement occurred in 4 cases and it was the cause of the treatment failure in 2 of the 3 cases in which the local disease was treated unsuccessfully by surgery. The efficacy of antifungal chemotherapy remains to be determined.
- Subjects :
- Epididymitis
Male
Antifungal
medicine.medical_specialty
Chemotherapy
Coccidioidomycosis
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business.industry
Urology
medicine.medical_treatment
Disease
Middle Aged
Epididymis
Treatment failure
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Amphotericin B
Rare case
medicine
Humans
Sex organ
Surgical excision
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15273792 and 00225347
- Volume :
- 130
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Urology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....885f404b1d42d872046097c878527d7b