Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Presenting as a Testicular Mass: A Case Report

Isolated testicular tuberculosis mimicking testicular malignancy in a 45-year-old male treated at a tertiary hospital. Case report and literature review

“…The epididymis is the commonest extrapulmonary structure to be involved, followed by the seminal vesicles, prostate, testis, and the vas deferens. It is important to have definitive diagnosis in order to have a successful management and preventing unnecessary orchiectomy [ 11 ].The main challenge that forces a surgeon to consider unplanned orchiectomies is misdiagnosis and difficulty in diagnosis [ 12 ]. A testicular biopsy is a vital diagnostic step.…”

Testicular Tuberculosis: Two Rare Case Report

“…9 The most important problem that compels the clinician is to perform unnecessary orchiectomies due to difficulties in diagnosis and misdiagnosis. 10 Diffuse testicular size, heterogeneous or homogeneous hypoechoic nodular lesions can be observed on ultrasonography. 11,12 Testicular biopsy is one of the important methods in the diagnosis.…”

Clinical features, resistance patterns and treatment outcomes of drug-resistant extra-pulmonary tuberculosis: A scoping review

“…DR-epTB is a mostly ignored form of DR-TB which poses a risk to achieving the End TB strategy [51] . While there are several case reports on DR-epTB forms such as spine TB [52] , genital-urinary DR-epTB [53] , adenitis [54] , and meningitis [55] , there are few studies that have systematically reviewed the literature on DR-epTB. In this study, we have reviewed the clinical features and outcomes of 1,236 patients with DR-epTB reported in 18 studies.…”