Testicular tuberculosis: Case report

Abstract

Tuberculosis is an emerging infectious contagious disease with high morbidity and mortality worldwide both in its pulmonary and extrapulmonary forms. In fact, extrapulmonary forms, despite manifesting themselves in lesser percentage, allow the dissemination of infection to numerous target organs including, the genitourinary system. We present the case of a 50-year-old male patient, who consults for painful mass in the right testicle of approximately 1 month of evolution, with a leakage of fetid and persistent purulent material in hemiescrotum, without response to outpatient antimicrobial treatment, accompanied by dyspnea and hypoventilation in the left lung field, and a history of weight loss and cough with expectoration from green to brown for 6 months. He underwent radical orchiectomy plus scro- toctenomy. Chronic and granulomatous inflammation with central caseous necrosis and positive to the coloration of Ziehl Nielssen were observed by pathological and histochemical tissue studies. For the findings of the pathology plus the clinical and imaging findings at the pulmonary level, a diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis with spread to the testicle and scrotum is made. The patient undergoes antifimic treatment with improvement.