Giant scrotal elephantiasis of inflammatory etiology: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Denzinger, Stefan ^a   Watzlawek, Elke ^a   Burger, Maximilian ^a   Wieland, Wolf F ^a   Otto, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CYSTOSTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELEPHANTIASIS; ESTHETIC SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESIDUAL URINE; SCROTAL SWELLING; SCROTECTOMY; SKIN FIBROSIS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPERMATIC CORD; TESTIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFLAMMATION; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 44949228315     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-1-23     Document Type: Article

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