Orchitis in the course of severe chicken pox with pneumonitis, followed by testicular atrophy.

Abstract

CHICKEN pox usually runs a simple and uneventful course. Although the virus apparently is widely diffused through the body, injury to the remote organs is rare. Nevertheless, this virus disease is capable of producing formidable manifestations not only in the skin but also in other parts of the body, giving rise to a miliary type of pneumonia, several forms of encephalitis and nephritis. In a search through the literature we have found only 1 case of orchitis and epididymitis in the course of chicken pox.1 In the following case a unilateral orchitis and epididymitis occurred in conjunction with miliary pneumonia; . . .