Primary tuberculosis of the penis in a renal transplant patient

Gholamali Ghorbani; Mohammadhossein Akbari; Golamhossein Alishiri; Vahid Pourfarziani; Morteza Movahhed

Archives of Clinical Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, SBUMS

e-ISSN 2345-2641

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Primary tuberculosis of the penis in a renal transplant patient

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Gholamali Ghorbani^1,*, Mohammadhossein Akbari², Golamhossein Alishiri³, Vahid Pourfarziani⁴, Morteza Movahhed²

1Department of Infectious Diseases, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2Department of Pathology, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

3Department of Rheumatology, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

4Department of Nephrology, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

*Corresponding Author: Department of Infectious Diseases, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Email:, [email protected]. Email: [email protected]

Archives of Clinical Infectious Diseases:Vol. 2, issue 2; 95-8

Published online:Apr 30, 2007

Article type:Case Report

How to Cite:Ghorbani G, Akbari M, Alishiri G, Pourfarziani V, Movahhed M. Primary tuberculosis of the penis in a renal transplant patient. Arch Clin Infect Dis. 2007;2(2):. doi:

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Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is a complication of pulmonary tuberculosis that is disseminated through hematogenous or lymphatic system and may involve any organs. We present a case of primary tuberculosis of the penis that is a very rare presentation of tuberculosis.

Patient:

The patient was a 43-year-old man who had kidney transplantation. He admitted with painful ulceration on the glans of penis. Physical examination strongly suggested ulcer lesion that resemble to carcinoma or herpetic ulcer. He did not have any evidence of pulmonary tuberculosis. Having received empiric treatment against herpetic, bacterial and fungal infection, his condition did not improve and he was ordered biopsy of the lesion. Histopathologic studies and PCR revealed Mycobacterium tuberculosis, thus, anti-TB drugs were commenced. The ulcer was improved without any recurrence during a two-year follow up.

Conclusion:

In patients with kidney transplantation especially in countries endemic for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, chronic ulcer not responding to empiric therapy should be evaluated for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

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© 2007, Author(s). This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

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Primary tuberculosis of the penis in a renal transplant patient

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