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Balanite de Zoon chez un homme circoncis et infecté par le VIH, à Cotonou (Bénin)

Zoon’s balanitis in circumcised and HIV infected man, at Cotonou (Benin)

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Nous rapportons un cas de balanite de Zoon (BZ) chez un homme circoncis et infecté par le VIH. Un homme âgé de 43 ans, circoncis depuis la naissance, infecté par le VIH 1 et sous un traitement antirétroviral a consulté en 2009 pour une érosion prurigineuse et non douloureuse du gland évoluant depuis un an. A l’examen, l’exulcération était propre, bourgeonnante rouge vif par endroits et rosée en d’autres, à limites floues. L’histopathologie a montré une infiltration périvasculaire du derme par des nappes de plasmocytes. Les cultures bactériennes étaient négatives. L’évolution a été favorable après traitement avec l’oxytétracycline 3 % en pommade. La BZ peut survenir chez un patient infecté par le VIH, qu’il soit circoncis ou non.

Abstract

Balanitis of Zoon (BZ) characterized by an important plasma cell infiltration occurs exclusively in uncircumcised men aged between 40–80 years. We report here a case of BZ in an HIV infected patient who was circumcised since birth. A 43-year old man consulted in 2009 for itchy and not painful glans erosion evolving for one year. He is HIV1 infected and has been under didanosine, lamiduvine and nelfinavir for three years. Under this treatment, his CD4 count increased from 26 cells/mm3 in 2007 to 206 cells/mm3 at the time of the consultation. We noted after examination clean burgeoning erosion, red in places, pink in other places, with fuzzy boundary, sitting on the glans and extending into the preputial sulcus. Histopathology showed infiltration by sheets of plasma cells with perivascular topography in the dermis. The bacterial cultures and syphilis serology were negative. We noted a good outcome after four weeks of application of 3% oxytetracycline ointment. This observation suggests that the BZ can occur on a HIVinfected patient whether he was circumcised or not. Thus, it appears fair to think of BZ faced with a chronic erosion of the glans in HIV infected patient.

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Adégbidi, H., Atadokpèdé, F., Dégboé, B. et al. Balanite de Zoon chez un homme circoncis et infecté par le VIH, à Cotonou (Bénin). Bull. Soc. Pathol. Exot. 107, 139–141 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13149-014-0359-4

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