Epididymoorchitis due to brucellosis in Central Anatolia, Turkey

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-238

  Yetkin, Meltem Arzu ^a,c   Erdinc, Fatma Sebnem ^a   Bulut, Cemal ^a   Tulek, Necla ^b  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Department of IDCM   (Turkey)

^c SBAnkara Egitim ve Arastirma Hast   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brucella infection, genitourinary complications; Brucellosis; Epididymitis; Epididymoorchitis; Orchitis

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; HUMAN; MALE; ORCHITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; AGED; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORCHITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TURKEY;

EID: 26444492720     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087801     Document Type: Article

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