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Description

Neisseria gonorrhoeae can infect Tyson glands, causing tysonitis.


Tyson's glands are a pair of sebaceous glands on the penis, located on either side of the frenum/frenulum. They secrete smegma.

 

One or both glands may become infected.

The lesions are tender and filled with pus.

A lesion can evolve into an abscess with or without a sinus.

 

A Gram stain of fluid from the glands show pus and Gram-negative diplococci.

 

The patient may also have:

(1) gonococcal urethritis

(2) a periurethral abscess


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