Orchidectomy is not done in –
Correct Answer: Filarial epididemo-orchitis
Description: Flarial epididymoorchitis is tit with a course of Diethylcarbamazine 6 mg/kg/day along with antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs.
Seminoma testis and Prostatic Ca are well known indications of orchiectomy. Orchiectomy in seminoma testis is curative as well as diagnostic, while in prostate Ca it is palliative (B/L orchiectomy is done for androgen ablation). " Orchiectomy is also done in male breast cancer to induce remission of metastatic ds." - Schwartz, 7/e p591.
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