Embryonal carcinoma in a cryptorchid testis of a 3-year old.
The undescended testis is at an increased risk of malignant transformation. Almost all such tumours occur in the second to fourth decades of life and are usually seminomas. A case of a mixed germ-cell tumour with yolk sac and embryonal carcinoma components arising in one of the hitherto uncorrected bilateral cryptorchid testes of a3-year old child is presented.
Deb
Mainak
M
Department of Paediatric Surgery, St. John's Medical College Hospital, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Johnnagara, Bangalore 560034, India.
Alexander
Betty
B
Das
Kanishka
K
D018236:Carcinoma, Embryonal / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003456:Cryptorchidism / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy; D008297:Male; D009919:Orchiectomy / Q000379:methods; D056126:Orchiopexy / Q000379:methods; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed