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Embryonal carcinoma in a cryptorchid testis of a 3-year old

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The undescended testis is at an increased risk of malignant transformation. Almost all such tumours occur in the second to fourth decades of life and are usually seminomas. A case of a mixed germ-cell tumour with yolk sac and embryonal carcinoma components arising in one of the hitherto uncorrected bilateral cryptorchid testes of a 3-year old child is presented.

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  1. Department of Paediatric Surgery, St. John’s Medical College Hospital, St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Johnnagara, Bangalore, 560034, India

    Mainak Deb & Kanishka Das

  2. Department of Pathology, St. John’s Medical College, St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, 560034, India

    Betty Alexander

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Deb, M., Alexander, B. & Das, K. Embryonal carcinoma in a cryptorchid testis of a 3-year old. Pediatr Surg Int 26, 233–235 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-009-2528-2

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