Prostatic Utricle Cyst As the Most Likely Cause in a Case of Recurrent Episodes of Hematospermia

Overview

Journal Case Rep Urol

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Urology

Date 2018 Feb 13

PMID 29430319

Citations 5

Authors

Gregoire Feutry

Thomas De Perrot

Gregory J Wirth

Xavier Montet

Steve P Martin

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Abstract

Hematospermia is a clinical symptom that raises anxiety in patients and has various causes, benign and malignant. We report a case of hematospermia for which appropriate multidisciplinary expertise favored a conservative management of a benign prostatic cyst, namely, a prostatic utricle cyst. A cystic lesion found by transrectal ultrasound in the context of hematospermia related to masturbation in a young virgin male patient was investigated with a high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and an endorectal coil. The association of high-field MRI and endorectal coil leads to high quality images.

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