Testicular Lipomatosis without Evidence of Cowden’s Disease

Ahmad Rezayi Azandariani¹, Leili Ebrahimi^2*, Sedigheh Saedi²

¹Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
²Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

DOI: 10.4236/crcm.2015.412074                

Abstract

Background: Testicular lipomatosis is a very rare and benign disorder of the testicles. It usually presents as multiple bilateral ill-defined hyper-echoic intra-testicular lesions of different sizes but generally with maximum 4 mm. Testicular lipomatosis is usually reported in association with Cowden’s syndrome. Aim: We aimed to show that there are cases of testicular lipomatosis occurring in the absence of Cowden’s syndrome. Case Presentation: We present a 28-year-old man with testicular pain, who was finally diagnosed as having isolated testicular lipomatosis without other clinical and biochemical abnormalities using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique. Conclusion: We showed that the testicular lipomatosis may occur and be detected without any evidence of Cowden’s disease.

Keywords

Testicular Lipomatosis, Cowden’s Disease, Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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