[Tumors of the testis, attitude and results]

A personal serie on the management of 13 testicular tumors is reported. Four seminomas were treated by castration and irradiations on both abdominal and mediastinal fields. All 4 patients are surviving from 4 to 8 years of follow-up. Among 7 patients with embryonal carcinoma, 5 are still living after a 3 to 10 year period, one patient is in widespread disease and another one is dead. An embryonal carcinoma was found associated with a teratocarcinoma in 2 patients who are alive respectively after 1 and 4 years.