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ABSTRACT

Crohn’s disease often is detected in adolescents with nonspecific gastrointestinal complaints. Extraintestinal complications are common but usually follow the onset of the bowel complaints. We present an unusual case in which scrotal swelling was the first symptom in a patient discovered to have Crohn’s disease. This is particularly unusual in that the patient presented as a case of urethral fistula.

Houda Boussourra, Sallami Satáa, Yosra Said, Hatem Rajhi, Najla Menif

Submitted October 1, 2011 - Accepted for Publication October 24, 2011

KEYWORDS: Crohn’s disease, diagnostic, fistula, complication, penis, MRI, treatment

CORRESPONDENCE: Sallami Satáa, Department of Urology, La Rabta Hospital-University, Tunis, Tunisia (sataa_sallami@yahoo.fr).

CITATION: UroToday Int J. 2012 June;5(3):art 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3834/uij.1944-5784.2012.06.12