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Burned-out tumour of the testis presenting as retroperitoneal choriocarcinoma
1Service of Pathology, Hospital de Basurto, Faculty of Medicine, Basque Country University, Bilbao, Spain.
International Urology and Nephrology
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
A case of "burned-out" tumour of the testis in a 20-year-old man is reported. The tumour presented as widespread retroperitoneal metastases. Orchiectomy displayed a subalbugineal fibrous scar close to the rete testis. Diagnostic biopsy of the unresectable retroperitoneal tumour showed a choriocarcinoma. Although appropriate chemotherapy was promptly started, the patient died 7 months after the initial complaints.