Korean J Urol.  1992 Feb;33(1):80-84.

The clinical usefulness of fine needle aspiration for differential diagnosis of chronic epididymitis

• Yeom HM
• Yoon DK
• Koh SK

Abstract

Tuberculous epididymitis mimics nonspecific chronic epididymitis in every way and the diagnosis is rather difficult in case of no systemic involvement. We performed fine needle aspiration on 4 cases or chronic epididymitis with unknown etiology and examined cytologically and microbiologically. Out or 4 cases 3 were proven tuberculosis and the other one was turned out nonspecific chronic inflammation. We concluded that the fine needle aspiration of the epididymis is a simple and convenient diagnostic procedure when the diagnosis is doubtful.

Keyword

Chronic epididymitis; Aspiration biopsy

MeSH Terms

Biopsy, Fine-Needle*
Biopsy, Needle
Diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential*
Epididymis
Epididymitis*
Inflammation
Male
Tuberculosis