Esthiomene: Report of a Case in a Young Israeli Woman

Rubinstein, N; Granat, Menachem; Kopolovivc, Yuri; Weinrauch, Louis

doi:10.1111/j.1365-4362.1983.tb02197.x

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“…Although genital elephantiasis has been known since antiquity, it is a rare condition and there are only stray case reports from tropical countries 2,4,7± 9 . The causes of this rare condition can be divided into common and uncommon as shown in Table 1 2,3,10 . No matter what the aetiology, the basic process remains the same as shown in Figure 2.…”

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Genital elephantiasis

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Genital elephantiasis (esthiomene), which is the dramatic end-result of lymphatic obstruction, is rather rare. Although mainly associated with filariasis and sexually transmitted diseases, such as lymphogranuloma venereum and donovanosis, it could also be an uncommon complication of tubercular lymphadenitis, a common infection in tropical countries. We report a rare case of a 32-year-old Indian female in whom genital elephantiasis occurred as a complication of tubercular lymphadenitis.

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