Pudendal neuralgia with rare symptoms hematuria and spermaturia
Year 2025,
Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 14 - 17, 31.01.2025
Dilara Çulhaoğlu Gökçek
,
Ülkü Türk Börü
,
Selin Betaş Akın
Abstract
Pudendal neuralgia is a rare entrapment syndrome. It is characterized by symptoms such as neuropatic pain, allodynia, hyperesthesia in the pudendal innervastion area and erectile dysfunction. Rarely addi-tional symptoms like hematuria and hematospermia may manifest. Currently there is no universalla recognized treatment approach for pudendal neuralgia and management primarily focuses on symptom relief.
Here we present a case with rare seen symptoms as hematospermia and hematuria.
The patient presented with burning, stabbing and cutting pain localized in the scrotum, penis and peria-nal region with more pronounced symptoms experienced on the right side. Six months after the onset of pain the patient also developed symptoms of hematospermia and hematuria. Following four local lido-caine injections administered to the patient at weekly intervals, the symptoms showed a 60% improve-ment.
In summary diagnosing pudendal neuralgia poses a significant challenge due to its complex nature. Its treatment options remain uncertain. However this case highlights the potential effectiveness of local analgesic injections as a treatment modality.
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Pudendal nevralji: nadir görülen semptomlar hematüri ve spermatüri
Year 2025,
Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 14 - 17, 31.01.2025
Dilara Çulhaoğlu Gökçek
,
Ülkü Türk Börü
,
Selin Betaş Akın
Abstract
Pudendal nevralji nadir görülen bir sıkışma sendromudur. Bu tablo pudendal sinirin sıkışması veya hasarı sonucu ortaya çıkar ve nöropatik ağrı, alodini, pudendal innervasyon alanında hiperestezi ve erektil disfonksiyon gibi semptomlarla karakterizedir. Nadiren hematüri ve hematospermi gibi ek semp-tomlar ortaya çıkabilir. Şu anda pudendal nevralji için evrensel olarak kabul edilen bir tedavi yaklaşımı bulunmamaktadır ve tedavi genellikle semptomların rahatlatılmasına odaklanmaktadır. Burada hemato-spermi ve hematüri gibi nadir görülen semptomları olan bir vaka sunuyoruz. Hasta skrotum, penis ve perianal bölgede lokalize olan yanma, saplanma ve kesici ağrı ile başvurdu. Belirtilerinin sağ tarafta daha belirgin olduğu gözlemlendi. Ağrının başlangıcından altı ay sonra hasta ayrıca hematüri ve hemato-spermi semptomları geliştirdi. Hastaya haftalık aralıklarla dört kez lokal lidokain enjeksiyonu uygu-landıktan sonra semptomlar %60 iyileşme gösterdi. Özetle pudendal nevraljinin tanısını koymak karmaşık doğası nedeniyle önemli bir zorluk oluşturur. Tedavi seçenekleri belirsizdir. Ancak bu vaka lokal analjezik enjeksiyonların bir tedavi yöntemi olarak potansiyel etkinliğini vurgulamaktadır.
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