1 Nevşehir State Hospital, Department of Urology, Nevşehir, Turkey 2 Düziçi State Hospital, Department of Urology, Osmaniye, Turkey 3 Istanbul Sultan 2. Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Department of Urology, Istanbul, Turkey
Testicular tumors may stem from diffe-rent cell types. The most common and agg-ressive type of testicular tumors are germ cell tumors. Germ cell tumors can be either se-minomatous or non-seminomatous tumors. Testicular non-seminomatous germ cell tu-mors occur mainly at younger ages. These tu-mors may be seen as pure (single histological type) and mixed forms (multiple histologic type). The most common combination of mixed germ cell tumor is the teratoma, emb-ryonal carcinoma, yolk sac tumor. Herewith, we present a 44-year-old male patient applied with the complaint of immobile painless mass in the left lateral neck and diagnosed with mixed germ cell metastatic tumor in his right testis identified as a result of consultations and inspections. Testicular tumor metastasis should be kept in mind in the differential di-agnosis of diseases lead to neck masses and should be approached as multisystemic. Ex-cisional biopsy was required because of the inadequacy of fine needle biopsy while the clinics of the patient was deteriorated. The diagnosis of non-seminomatous germ cell tu-mor in our case was established as a result of histological examination of neck mass.
Keywords: Testicular Tumor, Neck Me-tastasis
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