Orchitis
"Orchitis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Inflammation of a TESTIS. It has many features of EPIDIDYMITIS, such as swollen SCROTUM; PAIN; PYURIA; and FEVER. It is usually related to infections in the URINARY TRACT, which likely spread to the EPIDIDYMIS and then the TESTIS through either the VAS DEFERENS or the lymphatics of the SPERMATIC CORD.
| Descriptor ID |
D009920
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C12.294.829.493 C19.391.829.493
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Orchitis" by people in Profiles.
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Bridwell RE, Merrill DR, Griffith SA, Wray J, Oliver JJ. A coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patient with bilateral orchitis. Am J Emerg Med. 2021 Apr; 42:260.e3-260.e5.
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Yogo N, Nichol AC, Campbell TB, Erlandson KM. Syphilis presenting as retinal detachment and orchitis in a young man with HIV. Sex Transm Dis. 2014 Feb; 41(2):114-6.
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Lloyd G, Case JR, De Frias D, Brannigan RE. Trichomonas vaginalis orchitis with associated severe oligoasthenoteratospermia and hypogonadism. J Urol. 2003 Sep; 170(3):924.
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Doncel GF, Di Paola JA, Lustig L. Sequential study of the histopathology and cellular and humoral immune response during the development of an autoimmune orchitis in Wistar rats. Am J Reprod Immunol. 1989 Jun; 20(2):44-51.