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Testicular cancer ultrasound
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Ultrasound may be helpful in the diagnosis of testicular cancer. Findings on ultrasound suggestive of testicular cancer mass include well defined well circumscribed hypoechoic lesion for seminoma; calcification, cystic spaces, and heterogeneous for nonseminomatous germ cell tumors.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound
- Ultrasound may be helpful in the diagnosis of testicular cancer. Findings on ultrasound suggestive of testicular cancer mass include:[1][2][3][4]
Germ cell testicular tumor
- Seminoma:
- Well defined hypoechoic lesion
- Homogeneous
- Lack of cystic lesion
- Embryonal carcinoma:[5]
- Irregular calcification
- Cystic areas
- Heterogeneous
- Hypoechoic mass
- Yolk sac tumor:[6][7]
- Hypervascular testicular mass
- Isoechoid
- Well-circumscribed
- Homogenous and ovoid
- Choriocarcinoma:[8]
- It is used to confirm that there is a tumor in the testicle and check its size, shape, location, and density.
- Ultrasound can help to distinguish benign tumors from malignant ones.
Sex cord stromal testicular tumor
- Leydig cell tumor:[9][10]
- Well defined
- hypoechoid and cystic mass
- Homogeneous and calcified
- Hypervascular peripheral blood flow
- Sertoli cell tumor:[11][12]
- Granulosa cell tumor:[13]
References
References
- ↑ Voyvoda, Nuray; Voyvoda, Bekir; Çamurdan, Özden (2017). “The Role of Imaging in Testicular Cancer Diagnosis, Staging and Follow-up”. Ãœroonkoloji Bülteni. 16 (2): 51–56. doi:10.4274/uob.694. ISSN 2147-2270.
- ↑ Marth D, Scheidegger J, Studer UE (1990). “Ultrasonography of testicular tumors”. Urol. Int. 45 (4): 237–40. doi:10.1159/000281715. PMID 2163557.
- ↑ Benson CB (August 1988). “The role of ultrasound in diagnosis and staging of testicular cancer”. Semin Urol. 6 (3): 189–202. PMID 3072643.
- ↑ Kreydin EI, Barrisford GW, Feldman AS, Preston MA (June 2013). “Testicular cancer: what the radiologist needs to know”. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 200 (6): 1215–25. doi:10.2214/AJR.12.10319. PMID 23701056.
- ↑ Ishida M, Hasegawa M, Kanao K, Oyama M, Nakajima Y (February 2009). “Non-palpable testicular embryonal carcinoma diagnosed by ultrasound: a case report”. Jpn. J. Clin. Oncol. 39 (2): 124–6. doi:10.1093/jjco/hyn141. PMID 19066212.
- ↑ Xu HX, Yi XP (January 2007). “Sonographic appearance of a testicular yolk sac tumor in a 2-year-old boy”. J Clin Ultrasound. 35 (1): 55–7. doi:10.1002/jcu.20249. PMID 16960883.
- ↑ Magers MJ, Kao CS, Cole CD, Rice KR, Foster RS, Einhorn LH, Ulbright TM (October 2014). ““Somatic-type” malignancies arising from testicular germ cell tumors: a clinicopathologic study of 124 cases with emphasis on glandular tumors supporting frequent yolk sac tumor origin”. Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 38 (10): 1396–409. doi:10.1097/PAS.0000000000000262. PMID 24921638.
- ↑ Puri S, Sood S, Mohindroo S, Kaushal V (2015). “Cytomorphology of lung metastasis of pure choriocarcinoma of testis in a 58-year-old male”. J Cancer Res Ther. 11 (4): 1035. doi:10.4103/0973-1482.154010. PMID 26881635.
- ↑ Cheville JC, Sebo TJ, Lager DJ, Bostwick DG, Farrow GM (November 1998). “Leydig cell tumor of the testis: a clinicopathologic, DNA content, and MIB-1 comparison of nonmetastasizing and metastasizing tumors”. Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 22 (11): 1361–7. PMID 9808128.
- ↑ Al-Agha OM, Axiotis CA (February 2007). “An in-depth look at Leydig cell tumor of the testis”. Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 131 (2): 311–7. doi:10.1043/1543-2165(2007)131[311:AILALC]2.0.CO;2. PMID 17284120.
- ↑ Ulbright TM, Amin MB, Young RH (June 2007). “Intratubular large cell hyalinizing sertoli cell neoplasia of the testis: a report of 8 cases of a distinctive lesion of the Peutz-Jeghers syndrome”. Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 31 (6): 827–35. doi:10.1097/PAS.0b013e3180309e33. PMID 17527069.
- ↑ Giglio M, Medica M, De Rose AF, Germinale F, Ravetti JL, Carmignani G (2003). “Testicular sertoli cell tumours and relative sub-types. Analysis of clinical and prognostic features”. Urol. Int. 70 (3): 205–10. doi:10.1159/000068770. PMID 12660458.
- ↑ Song Z, Vaughn DJ, Bing Z (October 2011). “Adult type granulosa cell tumor in adult testis: report of a case and review of the literature”. Rare Tumors. 3 (4): e37. doi:10.4081/rt.2011.e37. PMC 3282442. PMID 22355492.
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