Our 10 Years’ Experience in Testicular Tumors

OpenAlex İngilizce

Introduction: Testicular cancer is usually seen among young men and has lower incidence when compared with other urologic malignancies.This study aims to share the results of testicular cancer during the last ten years.Methods: In this study, the patients who underwent orchiectomy in our unit between January 2009 and January 2019 were reviewed retrospectively.Age of the patients, the laboratory results and pathological reports were recorded.The patients who were diagnosed as benign tumor and inflammation were excluded from this study.Results: There were 131 patients in the present study.The patients' age was between 21 and 90, with a mean age of 37.16+12.18years.The germ cell tumor was reported in 125 patients.The remaining of the six patients had a sex-cord stromal tumor (n=3), liposarcoma (n=2) and lymphoma (n=1).Of these 125 patients, seminomas were seen in 39.2% and nonseminomatous germ cell tumor in 60.8% of the patients.Mixed germ cell tumor was reported in 65 (85.52%)patients; embryonal carcinoma was detected in seven (9.21%) patients.Four (5.26%) patients were diagnosed as a teratoma.Discussion and Conclusion: Most of the patients had germ cell tumors.Mixed germ cell tumor was the commonest tumor and followed by seminoma.