Giant Seminoma in an Undescended Testis Presenting as a Mass in the Right Iliac Fossa
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Seminoma is the most frequent carcinoma of the testicle in the fourth decade of life and constitutes 60% to 65% of germ cell neoplasia [2]. Several histopathological characteristics of the tumor have been evaluated and three types of pure seminoma have been described: classic, anaplastic and spermatocytic [3]. We report a patient with seminoma arising in an undescended testis which presented as a palpable mass of right iliac fossa.
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