Polypoid granulomatous and sclerosing endophlebitis of spermatic cord: new pathologic type of schistosomal funiculitis.

A case of polypoid granulomatous and sclerosing endophlebitis of the spermatic cord due to Schistosoma hematobium is described. The lesion was not due to deposition of ova and is believed to have resulted from death of an incarcerated worm mass upstream. As such, the case represents a hitherto unknown form of schistosomal funiculitis. Vascular changes in schistosomiasis are reviewed and a clinicopathologic classification of schistosomal funiculitis is proposed.