Red scrotum syndrome

doi:10.3315/jdcr.2011.1072

Contents

Abstract
Keywords

Download PDF pdf

Download XML

249 Views

133 Downloads

Share this article

Research Article | Volume 5 Issue 3 (None, 2011) | Pages 38 - 41

Red scrotum syndrome

Uwe Wollina

Under a Creative Commons license

Open Access

DOI : 10.3315/jdcr.2011.1072

PMID : PMC3184780

Received

Dec. 13, 2010

Published

Sept. 21, 2011

Abstract

Background:Red scrotum syndrome is a rare and chronic disease affecting males in their second half of life. It is characterized by erythema with sharpborders, no scaling but burning and pain sensations.Main observations: We report about two cases treated successfully with either doxycycline and tacrolimus or gabapentine.Conclusion:For practical purposes we suggest to start treating red scrotum syndrome with doxycycline for 2 weeks and use gabapentin as second-line treatment when doxycycline fails.

Keywords

Differential diagnosis

Doxycycline

Gabapentine

Neurogenic inflammation

Red scrotum syndrome

Recommended Articles

Research Article

Relationship between Severity of Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria (CSU) with low level of Vitamin D: A teaching hospital based study at West Bengal

Animesh Biswas,

Ananya Biswas

Published: 04/12/2025