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Teratoma Generation in the Testis Capsule
Published on: November 7, 2011
Embryonal carcinoma in a cryptorchid testis of a 3-year old
Mainak Deb1, Betty Alexander, Kanishka Das
1Department of Paediatric Surgery, St. John's Medical College Hospital, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Johnnagara, Bangalore 560034, India.
Abstract:
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.
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