A case of scrotal sarcoidosis that mimicked tuberculosis

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 227-230

  Datta, Soumendra N ^a   Freeman, Alex ^b   Amerasinghe, Cyril N ^c   Rosenbaum, Tomas P ^c  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c EALING HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; LANSOPRAZOLE; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GRANULOMATOSIS; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NIGHT SWEAT; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SARCOIDOSIS; SCROTAL SWELLING; SCROTUM DISORDER; TESTIS BIOPSY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOIDOSIS; SCROTUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, UROGENITAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 34147166214     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0777     Document Type: Article

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