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Beware the retracted testis: A novel case of metastatic goblet cell cancer causing testicular retraction
Brian O'Sullivan1, Michael Holmes1, Shiva Nair1
1Department of Urology, Waikato Hospital, Pembroke Street, Hamilton, 3204, New Zealand.
Urology Case Reports
|May 9, 2022
Abstract:
Spontaneous retraction of the testes is a rare, underreported, and under-described phenomenon. Our case describes a 58-year-old man with spontaneous retraction and constriction of his right testis. After an acute orchidectomy was performed secondary to pain, histology revealed metastatic goblet cell cancer. This is the first ever recorded case in the medical literature and is a truly rare and novel differential for the spontaneously retracted testis.

