Silk suture granuloma after high orchiectomy


DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/urology.2019.6.113-114

S. Caliskan, R. Akdeniz, M. Sungur, B. Eser

1) Hitit Universtiy, Çorum Training and Research Hospital, Department of Urology, Çorum, Turkey; 2) Hitit Universtiy, Çorum Training and Research Hospital, Department of Pathology, Çorum, Turkey; 3) Hitit Universtiy, Çorum Training and Research Hospital, Department of Nephrology, Çorum, Turkey
Suture granuloma is very rare complication of surgical procedures developing from the non-absorbable sutures. The development of suture granuloma is a chronic process and includes multinucleated giant cell formation. It has two step process including the initial reaction of tissue inflicted the passage of the needle and specific inflammatory reaction of the suture material. There is no pathognomonic imaging modality fort he diagnosis of suture granuloma. Surgery is used to for the diagnosis and eradication of the inflammation. A 59 year old man presented with 3*2 cm sized palpable, firm painless nodular mass in the right scrotum. The patient was treated with high orchiectomy before 3 weeks. The mass was excised and reported as silk suture granuloma.

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Corresponding author: Selahattin Çalışkan – Hitit Universtiy, Çorum Training and Research Hospital, Department of Urology,
Çorum, Turkey; e-mail: dr.selahattincaliskan@gmail.com


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