[Seminoma and teratocarcinoma: synchronic unitesticular presentation as independent nodules with different histologies? Ultrasound characteristics].
OBJECTIVE
To describe the ultrasound characteristics, vascularization pattern (colour Doppler ultrasound) and possible histogenesis of one case of synchronic untesticular seminoma and teratocarcinoma as independent tumor nodules, histologically different, in a 19-year-old patient with testicular mass for eight months.


METHODS
Conventional ultrasound, colour Doppler ultrasound, and high resolution Doppler angiogram were performed, analyzing vascular flows. After resection of the tumor, macroscopic and histological sections were related with ultrasound images.


RESULTS
The patient showed three independent, well limited, tumoral nodules in the right testicle: two of them heterogeneous, 20 and 33 mm in diameter, with cystic areas and calcifications. The third nodule was solid, hypoechoic and homogeneous, 26 mm in diameter. All nodules presented an increase in vascularization with low resistance arterial flows. Histologically the first two nodules were teratocarcinomas (predominantly mature teratoma and embryonal carcinoma) and the third classic seminoma.


CONCLUSIONS
Although seminoma and mixed germ cell tumors are common, "their presentation in the some testicle as independent nodules with different histologies is a rarely referred case in the literature, which allows us to apply a histogenetic and ultrasound-pathologic correlation model in seminomatous and nonseminomatous tumors. The presence of cystic cavities and gross calcifications is highly correlated with teratoma. In our case there are not significant differences in the vascularization pattern with Doppler ultrasound.
García Bocanegra
Irene
I
Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital Clínico, Málago, España.
Márquez Moreno
Antonio Javier
AJ
Julve Villalta
Emilio
E
Pérez Villa
Lidia
L
Ruíz Escalante
José
J
Blanes Berenguel
Alfredo
A
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D018239:Seminoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D018243:Teratocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler