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Description

IgG4 disease may affect the male urogenital tract.


Sites involved may include:

(1) testis

(2) epididymis

(3) paratesticular tissues

(4) prostatitis

 

Presentation:

(1) epididymo-orchitis

(2) chronic prostatitis

(3) testicular or paratesticular mass

 

Histologic findings:

(1) chronic inflammation with the presence of plasma cells that mark for IgG4

(2) myofibroblastic spindle cell proliferation

(3) pseudotumor formation

 

Other findings:

(1) evidence of IgG4-related disease at other sites


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