Giant elephantiasis and inguino-scrotal hernia

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 Jun 15;11(6):e0005494. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005494. eCollection 2017 Jun.

Authors

Helder Miranda¹, Anna Claudia Colangelo^{2

3}, Mario Antunes¹, Marcella Schiavone⁴, Stefano Merigliano², Damiano Pizzol³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Central Hospital of Beira, Beira, Mozambique.
² Department of Surgery and Organ Transplantation, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
³ Operational Research Unit, Doctors with Africa Cuamm, Beira, Mozambique.
⁴ Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Elephantiasis / pathology*
Elephantiasis / surgery
Hernia, Inguinal / pathology*
Hernia, Inguinal / surgery
Hernia, Inguinal / therapy*
Humans
Male
Scrotum / pathology*
Scrotum / surgery

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this study.