title: [Cryptorchism and testicular cancer].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This report insists on the higher risk of testicular cancer in cryptorchidism and indicates the more adequate management of this pathology.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We report a 27 years old patient with history of cryptorchidism, diagnosed of abdominal tumor in urgency. This tumor was a seminoma in intrapelvic testicle.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The risk of developing testicular cancer in cryptorchidism is 3 to 10 times greater than in a patient with normally descended testes, and orchiopexy does not prevent the risk of malignancy. We underscore the need to follow these patients closely and recommend the orchiectomy in postpubertal patients.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Hospital Regional Universitario Reina Sofía de Córdoba.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Carmona Campos
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Regueiro López
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Prieto Castro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leva Vallejo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Moreno Arcas
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Requena Tapia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003456:Cryptorchidism / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018239:Seminoma / Q000209:etiology*; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*