Incidentally Detected Testicular
Metastasis in a Case of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma
Published: December 1, 2015 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2015/.6884
Sowmiya Sampathrajan, Garima Garg, Sweety Gupta, Shailesh Chandra Sahay, Sudarsan DE
1. Senior Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital, Galaxy Cancer Institute, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
2. Consultant, Department of Pathology, Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital, Galaxy Cancer Institute, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
3. Consultant, Department of Radiation Oncology, Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital, Galaxy Cancer Institute, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
4. Senior Consultant, Depatment of Urology, Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital, Galaxy Cancer Institute, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
5. Senior Consultant, Department of Radiation Oncology, Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital, Galaxy Cancer Institute, Vaishali, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Sowmiya Sampathrajan,
Pushpanjali Crosslay hospital, Galaxy Cancer institute, W-3, Sector-1 Vaishali, Ghaziabad, NCR, Uttar Pradesh- 201012, India.
E-mail: doctorsowmiyapgi@gmail.com
Adenocarcinoma of the prostate is one of the common cancers among elderly men worldwide. However, testicular metastasis detected incidentally after orchiectomy is a rare presentation as most commonly we encounter patients presenting with bone metastasis at the time of primary diagnosis. Here, we describe a recently diagnosed case of prostatic carcinoma that had metastasis in a single testis, incidentally detected in the orchiectomy histopathological specimen, performed for surgical castration and emphasize the importance of routine microscopical examination of the testicular specimens.
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