Introduction
Coronaviruse cause either self-limiting mild infection or more serious infections that effect to the whole body. CoV disease has first reported on January 7, 2020, as a result of investigations from pneumonia cases of unknown etiology in Wuhan, China’s Hubei province. COVID-19 caused a pandemic that has begun as pneumonia of unclear etiology which has spread all over the world. The disease is transmitted mainly through droplets. As the virus can be detected in the respiratory secretions of asymptomatic people, of whome could transmit the disease to another people.
The recommendations of the genitourinary system associated with COVID-19 are generally focused on management of urological diseases or treatment methods. 1-4 If we evaluated in terms of genitourinary pathologies, acute kidney failure is among the most frequently studied subjects.5,6 Studies published of the relationship between the genitourinary cancers and Covid-19 has usually focused on the management of prostate cancer or bladder cancer .7-14 In these studies, the roles of CoV presence in the diagnosis and treatment of urinary system pathologies were mentioned and disease management was explained with general recommendations.
The relationship between testicular pain and COVID-19 is one of the least informed subjects among the existing urological diseases. In the current literature, only one case report was published regarding COVID-19 related scrotal or testicular pain.15,16 In this study, we aimed to evaluate COVID-19 related testicular pain in hospitalized patients due to COVID-19 and to review as an etiological factor for epididymo-orchitis.