Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection presenting as a testicular mass in an immunocompromised patient: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Hartley, Ruth A ^a  

^a EAST SURREY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PREDNISOLONE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LUNG LESION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NIGHT SWEAT; ORCHIECTOMY; ORCHITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SMOKING; SPLENOMEGALY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TESTICULAR ENLARGEMENT; TESTIS; TESTIS TUMOR; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 77953450411     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4076/1757-1626-2-8975     Document Type: Article

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