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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 387-390 |
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An isolated tuberculousorchitis mimicking testicular tumour as a primary presentation of HIV: A case report
MS Haruna1, AA Sule2, A Abubakar3
1 Department of Morbid Anatomy and Forensic Medicine, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria
2 Department of Pathology, Bayero University Kano/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria
3 Urology unit, Department of Surgery, Bayero University Kano/Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria
Correspondence Address:
A A Sule
Department of Pathology, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano
Nigeria
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/1115-2613.279422
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BACKGROUND: An isolated tuberculousorchitis is a rare lesion and is distinctly unusual as the primary presentation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. A high index of suspicion remains decisive to this diagnosis especially when the clinico-radiological findings of such lesion affirmed features of the testiculartumour.
CASE REPORT: A 32-year old man presented with a three-months history of left sided painless progressive testicular swelling. Further clinico-radiological findings revealed traits of a left testicular tumour. He was found to be HIV positive only at the index presentation whilst the histopathology of the left sided orchidectomy tissue confirmed tuberculous (TB) orchitis.
CONCLUSION: High index of suspicion for TB orchitis with HIV in a patient with clinico-radiological findings of the testicular tumour from areas with high HIV and TB prevalence help in an expeditious diagnosis and therapy.
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