[A clinical study on testicular tumor].
The 19 cases of testicular tumors treated at our Hospital between 1974 and 1983, were reviewed retrospectively. The incidence of testicular tumors among the male outpatients in our urologic clinic was 0.31%. The patients ranged in age from 1 to 76 years old (average: 27.8 years old). The affected side was the left side in 11 and the right side in 8 cases. The most frequent symptom was a painless mass of the testis. Histopathological diagnosis according to the classification by Dixon and Moore was type I in 9 cases, type II in 4 cases, type II in 1 case, type IV in 4 cases. Thus germinal tumors accounted for 18 (94.7%) of the cases. One case (5.3%) of malignant lymphoma was non-germinal. As for the age distribution, two peaks were noted in testicular tumors, especially in cases with potential embryonal carcinoma, between 1 and 2 years and between 19 and 32 years. On the other hand, the cases with potential seminoma showed one peak between 25 and 44 years. The treatment consisted of high orchiectomy alone, orchiectomy with radiation, orchiectomy with chemotherapy or orchiectomy with radiation and chemotherapy. Retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy was not done in any case. The over-all 3-year and 5-year actual survival rates were both 92%.
Fukatsu
H
H
Waki
M
M
Hatano
Y
Y
Hiraiwa
S
S
Kikuchi
T
T
Muramatsu
T
T
Yamada
Y
Y
Nishikawa
E
E
Satoh
T
T
Honda
N
N
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011379:Prognosis; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins / Q000097:blood
D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins