FISTULE EPIDIDYMO-CUTANEE COMPLIQUANT UNE TUBERCULOSE EPIDIDYMO TESTICULAIRE: A PROPOS DUN CAS

The authors report a case of epididymo-cutaneous fistula complicating epididymo-testicular tuberculosis collected in the urology department of the university clinics of Lubumbashi. This is a 34-year-old patient, with no particular predisposing factors, admitted for isolated swelling of the right hemi-bursa causing pus to weld through a slit for several months without a tendency to dry up, the patient wore a urinary catheter gauge 16 indicated for previous retention of urine, several times treated with antibiotic therapy without success, no sign of tuberculous impregnation had been highlighted. The diagnosis was made by the isolation of the tubercle bacillus in the testicular fistulization pus, HIV serology was negative.