Syphilitic Pseudo-elephantiasis

Syphilitic elephantiasis of penis and scrotum.

Received March 2007 Accepted August 2007 INTRODUCTION Syphilis is normally manifested 2 weeks after sexual exposure with the characteristic painless penile sore. The infection rapidly progresses to the secondary stage unless adequate treatment is administered. The secondary stage is characterized by the appearance of rashes in which the infection overwhelms the body. Systematic symptoms such as...

Elephantiasis

Scrotal Elephantiasis

an early mpjfcality of twenty-seven per cent, in sixty-one cases of operation for Scrotal Elephantiasis reported by Fayrer Oh" referring to my published record of these cases, I obsor-ve that the total number of cases operated upon during, .the yea-s, 1859 to 1871 amounted to 193, of which 35, or a fraction over 18 per cent., proved fatal. This is befit'dr than represented by Koch's, as above q...

Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosa

A 53-year-old woman presented to the hospital complaining of severe pain in her right leg for the past several days. She has a 5-year history of lymphedema in her right leg, as well as morbid obesity, recurrent cellulitis, erysipelas, and osteomyelitis. She has never suffered from filariasis and has no family history of familial lymphedema. Her temperature on admission was 100.9◦F (38.3◦C). Exa...

Cases of Elephantiasis Scroti

Muitmalen Aji Moplah, Mussulman, aged 27 years, was admitted into the Calicut Civil Hospital, Malabar, August 12th 1873, with a scrotal tumour of enormous dimensions, reaching to within three inches of the ground as the man stood erect, fifteen years in growth. Patient's statement.?The tumour commenced in the scrotum, noticeable at first by a slight thickening of its coats, afterwards increasin...