title: [Testicular tumors. Mortality and recurrence after inadequate therapy].
abstract: From 1983 to 1994, 293 patients with testicular germ cell tumors were treated at the Department of Urology, Bonn University, Germany. 252 patients (86%) were available for follow-up studies. 17/252 (6.8%) of patients died of disease, 41/252 (16%) had a tumor recurrence after complete remission. 20/41 (49%) patients with recurrence, who mainly had been referred for further treatment, had been treated inadequately. Inadequate treatment consisted of surgical failures after orchiectomy, incomplete retroperitoneal lymph node dissection after chemotherapy, delay of treatment, and inadequate chemotherapy. 80% of recurrences were found within the first two years after treatment, late relapses were found in 3.6%. Early recurrences were mainly pulmonary, late recurrences mostly occurred in the retroperitoneum or atypical. 20% of all recurrences were local recurrences.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Urologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Albers
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dommer
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D018239:Seminoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D015996:Survival Rate; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy