A world   grow a rarefied complication from a COVID-19 infection , at long last leading to   a maw in his   scrotum expose the ball inside .

write inUrology Case Reports , doctors report that a 72 - yr - old humankind demo up to the urology clinic , referred for a scrotal prolapsus . For the last six months , he had experienced sores and ulceration on his scrotum , and was diagnosed withpyoderma gangrenosum(PG ) . This is a rare condition think to be a disorder of the resistant system , have large , irritating ulcers to develop on   the skin .

He was placed on the steroid hormone prednisone , which resulted in improvements to his circumstance .

" However , before long after the biopsy and prior to starting Orasone , the two scrotal wound coalesced into one enceinte ulceration , " the team write in their report . " This resulted in prolapse of the left testicle , which was still covered by tissue . "

" After a hospitalization for congestive heart failure exacerbation , the testis gnaw at through the ulcer with fond exposure of the testicle right . "

His testicle had   made its way through his wounds , and was now pour down out of his scrotum .

“ When value by urogenital medicine , now with the exposed testicle , recommendations were made to come in informal fibrous joint to prevent the prolapsus of the scrotal contents . "

The team was able-bodied to fight the expose testicle back into shoes , before loosely closing the wound and allowing it fourth dimension to heal . Five months after firing off , his scrotal combat injury had heal nicely .

" PG is a challenging diagnosing to make due to the deficiency of validate diagnostic criteria and is considered a diagnosing of exception . While laboratory workup and biopsy can be supportive of PG , these are primarily done to exclude other cutaneous ulcerative disorderliness , " the team write of their diagnosing .

" While this patient had negative workup for associated systemic disease , his late COVID-19 contagion may have lend to the development of PG . Previous studies have bear witness COVID-19 can cause various immunologic alterations leading to autoinflammatory diseases , such as PG . "