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Does every retroperitoneal mass associated with undescended testicle represent testicular tumor or its metastasis?

Ali Unsal1, Ersin Cimentepe, Bunyamin Isik, Selda Tez, Ziya Akbulut, M Derya Balbay.   

Abstract

We are presenting a 36 year old male patient who was diagnosed to have a right pararenal mass on CT scan taken for evaluation of his long lasting urinary stone disease and accompanying undescended right testicle. He subsequently underwent a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for possible testicular tumor or its metastasis in the undescended testicle or retroperitoneal primary tumor, which came out to be non malignant tissue. We confirmed that the highest possible location of the testicle when undescended is at the level of the internal inguinal ring, and paracaval masses associated with undescended testicles do not necessarily represent a testicular tumor in the retained testicle, its metastasis or an extragonadal germ cell tumor (EGT), and further work should be done to illuminate the nature of such cases.

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Year:  2003        PMID: 15072495     DOI: 10.1023/b:urol.0000020304.62739.b9

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Int Urol Nephrol        ISSN: 0301-1623            Impact factor:   2.370


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Authors:  R S Foster; J P Donohue
Journal:  J Urol       Date:  2000-06       Impact factor: 7.450

2.  Treatment and surgical staging of testicular and primary extragonadal germ cell cancer.

Authors:  M B Garnick; G P Canellos; J P Richie
Journal:  JAMA       Date:  1983-10-07       Impact factor: 56.272

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