Symptoms of tuberculous orchiepididymitis in a 39-year-old male started with swelling of left scrotum, followed by fistula formation with suppurative discharge. There was no any improvement produced by antibiotics. Surgical extirpation of inflammatory destroyed testicle and epidydimis was performed. Presence of tubercle bacilli was not shown by bacteriological analysis of testicle tissue. Tuberculous etiology was suggested after histopathological examination of testis and epididymis. Exudate from surgical wound was examined on presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA. Etiology of orchiepididymitis was proved by positive assay and inflammatory process was completely cured by antituberculotics therapy. By this report it was clearly shown that sometimes only molecular methods could confirm etiology of inflammatory process.
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