Malignant tumours of the spermatic cord. Case reports of a secondary teratoma and a primary fibrosarcoma

✍ Scribed by T. W. Young

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 530 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800560405

✦ Synopsis

TUMO~RS of the spermatic cord are rare and it is unusual to report 2 cases from one surgical firm only 6 weeks apart. In the first case a secondary teratoma of the cord presented considerable difficulties i n diagnosis, whereas i n the second a neoplastic condition appeared likely from the first visit to the out-patient department.

CASE REPORTS

Case I.-Mr. M. O., aged 50, is a Turkish Cypriot. He had had a right inguinal herniorrhaphy in 1965. I n January, 1967, when a military policeman in Cyprus, he was assaulted and, among other injuries, was struck in the subgroup B (M.T.1.B) (Testicular Tumour Panel and Registry;. Examination under the anaesthetic revealed no palpable para-aortic nodes. There was no lymphadenopathy, the chest radiograph was clear, and subsequent lymphangiography showed no abnormality of the iliac or abdominal nodes.