[Brucellar orchitis. Case report and bibliographic review].
OBJECTIVE
We report one case of unilateral epididymo-orchitis secondary to Brucella and perform a bibliographic review.


METHODS
We report the case of a 5 1-year-old male with fever, predominantly in the evening hours, over one month associated with a subacute inflammatory process on the right testicle and osteoarticular pain on the left ribs.


RESULTS
Treatment was performed with rifampicin 600 mg/day for 45 days and doxicilin 100 mg/12 hours for 45 days.


CONCLUSIONS
The brucellar etiology should be taken into consideration in front of an epididymo- orchitis with torpid outcome, mainly in areas of endemic Brucella and patients that have had contact with cattle or non controlled milk derivatives. We emphasize that contact could have been several months before the appearance of clinical epididymoorchitis.
Cánovas Ivorra
José Antonio
JA
Servicio de Urología, Hospital "Mare de Deu dels Lliris". Alcoy, Alicante, España. jacanovas@hotmail.com
Sánchez Díaz
Antonio Francisco
AF
Fernández García
Juan Salvador
JS
García Zamora
Antonio
A
Cuesta Climent
Angel
A
D002006:Brucellosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009920:Orchitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*