ArticleCureus2024
What You Should Know About Vasitis: A Case Report.
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Abstract
Even though infected vasitis is rarely reported in the literature, there are other diagnoses that share the same clinical signs, including testicular torsion, epididymo-orchitis, epididymitis, trauma, and incarcerated hernia. A 27-year-old man was brought to the emergency department by his brother with right inguinal and testicular pain for one day. The history was not significant with fever, lower urinary tract symptoms, urethral discharge, change in bowel habits, previous history of inguinal swelling, or surgical intervention. On presentation, the patient was vitally stable, and right infra-inguinal and inguinal vas deferens were tender and swollen; however, both testes and epididymis were normal, and no urethral discharge. Vasitis, or inflammation of the vas deferens, is an uncommon illness that Chan PT and Schlegel classified as either asymptomatic vasitis nodosa or severely painful infectious vasitis. Acute infective vasitis is a really uncommon illness, with only a few occurrences documented in the literature. However, the retrograde transmission of urinary pathogens such as
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