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Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Human Brucellar Spondylodiscitis
Published on: May 23, 2021
[Brucellar orchitis. Case report and bibliographic review]
José Antonio Cánovas Ivorra1, Antonio Francisco Sánchez Díaz, Juan Salvador Fernández García
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital "Mare de Deu dels Lliris". Alcoy, Alicante, España. jacanovas@hotmail.com
Objective:
We report one case of unilateral epididymo-orchitis secondary to Brucella and perform a bibliographic review.
Methods:
We report the case of a 5 1-year-old male with fever, predominantly in the evening hours, over one month associated with a subacute inflammatory process on the right testicle and osteoarticular pain on the left ribs.
Results:
Treatment was performed with rifampicin 600 mg/day for 45 days and doxicilin 100 mg/12 hours for 45 days.
Conclusions:
The brucellar etiology should be taken into consideration in front of an epididymo- orchitis with torpid outcome, mainly in areas of endemic Brucella and patients that have had contact with cattle or non controlled milk derivatives. We emphasize that contact could have been several months before the appearance of clinical epididymoorchitis.
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