ORCHITIS IN ACUTE HEPATITIS B- AN UNKNOWN PHENOMENON

Introduction: Hepatitis B is a common, vaccine-preventable infection with high mortality and morbidity rates worldwide. Extrahepatic syndromes including serum-sickness like syndrome, papular acrodermatitis, polyarteritis nodosa (PAN), membranous or proliferative glomerulonephritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, leukocytoclastic vasculitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, cryoglobulinemia, aplastic anaemia, myocarditis, pericarditis, polymyositis, juvenile dermatomyositis, pleural effusion have been described in patients with either acute or chronic viral hepatitis B.