title: Late recurrence of clinical stage I seminoma of the testis after 12 years despite adjuvant infradiaphragmatic irradiation.
abstract: A patient treated with prophylactic infradiaphragmatic radiation therapy for clinical stage I left testicular pure seminoma developed a large mass of the chest wall 12 years after primary treatment. An incisional biopsy confirmed pure seminoma. After chemotherapy, surgical removal of the residual mass and second-line chemoradiation therapy for persistent seminoma, the patient had a vertebral relapse. He died of progression 24 months after the first relapse despite further therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, University of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy. tavolini@unipd.it
authors.forename: Ivan Matteo
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Tavolini
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mazzariol
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dal Bianco
authors.forename: Pierfrancesco
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bassi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003964:Diaphragm; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D018239:Seminoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D013997:Time Factors