Primary lymphoma of spermatic cord

Primary lymphomas of spermatic cord are extremely rare. In a review of the world medical literature, until now, only fourteen cases of spermatic cord lymphoma have been reported, and, furthermore, they have a poor prognosis even in patients with stage I disease. Herein, we report a new case of primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the spermatic cord. In August, 1993, 76-year-old man visited an urological hospital with a compaint of a right intrascoral mass, and underwent orchiectomy. Macroscopically no invasive lesion in the testis was observed, and the tumorous lesion was restricted to the epididymis. The histopathological study indicated that he suffered from primary malignant lymphoma of the spermatic cord (B-cell, diffuse medium-sized cell type). As radiographic investigations showed no other invasive lesion, the patient was diagnosed to be in stage IE. He was followed only with clinical observation, and, in August, 1996, relapsed with extensive disease in the abdoninal cavity, and was transferred to our hospital. Fourty months after the orchiectomy, he died of progression of disease irrespective of the salvage radio-chemotherapies given to him.