[Acute scrotum from testicular involvement in acute lymphocytic leukemia: a case report].
A 8-year-old boy with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) had received chemotherapy and a complete bone marrow remission was obtained. Then he underwent bone marrow transplantation. After 6 months, he suddenly got left flank-low abdominal pain. Sequentially, he had swelling and redness of left scrotum, left testicular swelling and tenderness. Incision was done and enlarged and hard testis was diagnosed as testicular tumor, left orchiectomy was performed. Histological diagnosis was involvement of ALL, so he received radiotherapy. He remains free of disease by the present after 7 months.
Nitta
Takashi
T
Department of Urology, Gunma University School of Medicine.
Koike
Hidekazu
H
Fukabori
Yoshitatsu
Y
Hatori
Motoaki
M
Ono
Yoshitaka
Y
Matsui
Hiroshi
H
Suzuki
Kazuhiro
K
Yamanaka
Hidetoshi
H
Shigawa
Youko
Y
Kanazawa
Takashi
T
Ogawa
Chitose
C
D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002648:Child; D005832:Genital Diseases, Male / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009919:Orchiectomy; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012611:Scrotum; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery