TY - JOUR
T1 - Repeated testicular infarction in a patient with sickle cell disease
T2 - A possible mechanism for testicular failure
AU - Li, Maomi
AU - Fogarty, James
AU - Whitney, Kathleen D.
AU - Stone, Peter
PY - 2003/9/1
Y1 - 2003/9/1
N2 - We report a case of repeated testicular infarction in a 39-year-old man with sickle cell disease. The patient presented with a 2-week history of testicular pain and was found clinically and sonographically to have a testicular mass, suspicious for a testicular tumor. The pathologic examination of the orchiectomy specimen revealed multiple infarcts, showing temporal variation ranging from acute (several days old) to recent (2 to 3 weeks old) to remote. This is the fifth case of segmental testicular infarction reported in patients with sickle cell disease/trait. We propose repeated testicular infarction as a probable mechanism of testicular failure and impaired fertility in patients with sickle cell disease.
AB - We report a case of repeated testicular infarction in a 39-year-old man with sickle cell disease. The patient presented with a 2-week history of testicular pain and was found clinically and sonographically to have a testicular mass, suspicious for a testicular tumor. The pathologic examination of the orchiectomy specimen revealed multiple infarcts, showing temporal variation ranging from acute (several days old) to recent (2 to 3 weeks old) to remote. This is the fifth case of segmental testicular infarction reported in patients with sickle cell disease/trait. We propose repeated testicular infarction as a probable mechanism of testicular failure and impaired fertility in patients with sickle cell disease.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0090-4295(03)00482-5
DO - 10.1016/S0090-4295(03)00482-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 12946770
AN - SCOPUS:0043235892
SN - 0090-4295
VL - 62
SP - 551
JO - Urology
JF - Urology
IS - 3
ER -