Approximately 95% of testicular cancers are germ-cell tumours and these are divided into non-seminoma and pure seminoma.
They rarely metastasize to the gastrointestinal tract (< 5%) and pure seminoma are the least likely to do so with an incidence of < 1%. We describe an unusual case of a 67-year-old man, who presented with gastrointestinal complaints, the first symptoms of testicular seminoma being a small bowel metastasis. The patient had a palpable testicular mass which was not detected until after the tumour in the small bowel had been resected and histology revealed metastasis from a seminoma.
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Lund DM, Fode M, Balslev I, Sønksen J. Are you the author?
Urologisk Afdeling, Roskilde Sygehus, Køgevej 7-13, 4000 Roskilde.
Reference: Ugeskr Laeger. 2013 Mar 4;175(10):659-660.
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23462039
Article in Danish.
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