Syringocele in adult patient. Case report

Arch Esp Urol. 2012 May;65(4):502-4.
[Article in English, Spanish]

Abstract

Objective: To describe one case of syringocele in an adult patient.

Methods/results: We report the case of a 26 year old man who presented frequency, hematuria and fever during one year, mictional cystourethrography showed a syringocele. Treatment consisted in endoscopic surgery, with good results in the follow-up.

Conclusions: The syringocele is a relatively infrequent entity, that is necessary to study in a young patient with voiding symptoms, accompanied or not of haematuria and fever. The diagnosis is based on the cystourethrography, and treatment consisted, usually, in endoscopic surgery.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Hernia / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Radiography
  • Spinal Cord / diagnostic imaging*
  • Urethral Diseases / diagnostic imaging*