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A rare case of solitary metastatic non-seminomatous malignant germ cell tumor to the prostate

Ryan W. Dobbs¹, Adeboye O. Osunkoya^1,2, Peter T. Nieh¹, Daniel J. Canter¹

1 Department of Urology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2 Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Address correspondence to Dr. Daniel Canter, Department of Urology, Emory University, 1365 Clifton Road, Clinic B Suite 1400, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA

Canadian Journal of Urology 2012, 19(5), 6471-6473.

Abstract

Testicular cancer is the most common solid malignancy of men aged 15-40 years and metastasizes in a predictable manner via lymphatic spread. Involvement of metastatic testicular cancer to the prostate is an exceedingly rare event which has only been previously described in patients with seminomatous germ cell tumors. In this report, we present a case of a 42-year-old man who presented with metastatic testicular cancer to the prostate 8 years after his original diagnosis of a mixed germ cell left testicular tumor.

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