A 55-year-old man presented with a painful left scrotal enlargement and fever for 6 weeks. He was treated with antibiotics at the community hospital. His fever and scrotal pain were improved but the scrotum became enlarged. He was referred to our hospital to have testicular tumour ruled out. He had history of left renal calculi and urethral stricture with off and on urinary tract infection. Phy...

background: nonspecific symptoms are common in all areas of medicine. patients and caregivers can be frustrated when an illness cannot be reduced to a discrete pathophysiological process that corresponds with the symptoms. we therefore asked the following questions: 1) which demographic factors and psychological comorbidities are associated with change from an initial diagnosis of nonspecific a...

Epididymo-orchitis (EO) is a rare but important cause of scrotal swelling in pediatric patients. EO is caused by bacteremia leading to hematogenous seeding or ascending infection of the urinary tract. EO can be associated with abscess, bacteremia, and other serious infections, and must be distinguished from other causes of scrotal swelling such as testicular torsion. We present a case of a 16-d...

castleman disease (cd) is a rare, lymphoproliferative disorder of uncertain etiology. we are reporting on two cases of castleman disease. both patients were female. this disease can be found wherever lymph nodes are present. we have reported two unusual cases of castleman disease. a 29- year old woman was referred for evaluation because of a cervical lymph node, weight loss and night sweats. th...

INTRODUCTION Acute epididymo-orchitis (AEO) is an acute inflammatory disease of the epididymis and ipsilateral testis. Treatment should be started immediately after diagnosis and includes antibiotics, analgesics, and, if necessary, surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS After AEO diagnosis, patients were treated conservatively with analgesics and antibiotics. If no clinical improvement was observed w...