Case 40 -- Testicular Lesion

Contributed by Kevin D. Horn, MD
Published on line in October 1995

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PATIENT HISTORY:

The subject is a 33 year old morbidly obese white male (535 pounds). He presented to the hospital two weeks following a gastric vertical banding procedure for his obesity with fever and diarrhea. His hospital course was complicated by infection of his abdominal incision, followed by reexcision of the tissue around the incision wound. The culture of the incision revealed vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium. Respiratory failure and death due to his sepsis followed a month-long hospital stay. A testicular finding unrelated to the cause of death was noted on autopsy.

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