Tuberculosis of the glans penis

an important differential diagnosis of genital ulcer disease

Singal, Archana
Pandhi, Deepika
Kataria, Vandana
Arora, Vinod K

¹Department of Dermatology and STD, University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
²Department of Pathology, University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Archana Singal, Department of Dermatology, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi 110095, India. Email: [email protected]

Received December 2, 2016

Accepted March 5, 2017

International Journal of STD & AIDS 28(14):p 1453-1455, December 2017. | DOI: 10.1177/0956462417703027

We report a 45-year-old, apparently healthy sero-negative man, presenting with multiple ulcers on the glans penis for a duration of three months. There was no significant inguinal lymphadenopathy. He showed no improvement on systemic antibiotics and acyclovir. Histopathology revealed the diagnosis of genital tuberculosis (TB), and polymerase chain reaction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis tested positive. The patient responded well to category I anti-tubercular treatment with complete resolution of lesions in six months. It is important to consider a differential diagnosis of penile TB in patients with non-healing genital ulcers.