Abstract
A 28-year-old heterosexual man presented to an emergency department with a 2-day history of left testicular pain and swelling that began after he started having unprotected sex with a new partner. He also had a 1-day history of fever and chills. Physical examination, urinalysis, complete blood count, polymerase chain reaction testing for gonorrhea and chlamydia, serial scrotal ultrasonography with color Doppler imaging, and measurement of serum tumor marker levels. Left orchitis with right testicular mass suspicious for malignancy. The patient received antibiotic therapy (ceftriaxone and azithromycin), which resulted in resolution of his presenting symptoms. He was discharged from hospital with plans to undergo follow-up evaluation by the urology service. He opted to delay surgical intervention; repeat ultrasonography at 4 weeks revealed signs consistent with treated left-sided orchitis and revealed near-complete resolution of the right-sided lesion. The patient's right-sided mass probably represented subclinical bacterial orchitis, which responded to antibiotic therapy.
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