Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Neck mass as the first presentation of testicular choriocarcinoma

  • Case Report
  • Published:
European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head & Neck Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Choriocarcinoma is a highly malignant tumor of the testis and usually occurs as a component of mixed germ cell tumor. The testicular enlargement may be subtle, and the patient may present with metastasis, the neck being one of its least reported locations. A case of testicular choriocarcinoma in a 24-year-old man who presented for the first time with metastatic neck mass is reported here. This presentation, although very rare, can be a great diagnostic and therapeutic challenge and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of cervical masses occurring in young males.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Cotran RS, Kumar V, Collins T (1999) The male genital tract: choriocarcinoma of testis. In: Robbins pathologic basis of disease, 6th edn. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, pp 1021–1022

  2. Kiliç G, Ünal ÖF, Sungar A, Gürsel B (2003) Unusual presentation of choriocarcinoma metastasis to the neck. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 129:297–299

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Krag Jacobsen GG, Barlebo H, Olsen J, Schultz HP, Starklint H, Sogaard H, Vaeth M (1984) Testicular germ cell tumors in Denmark 1976–1980: pathology of 1,058 consecutive cases. Acta Radiol Oncol 23:239–247

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Mostofi FK, Price EB Jr (1987) Choriocarcinoma of testis. In: Tumors of the male genital system. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington D.C., pp 53–58 [Atlas of Tumor Pathology, 2nd series, fascicle 8]

  5. Richie JP (1993) Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of testicular cancer. Cancer Invest 11:670–675

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Rosai J (2004) Male reproductive system: tumors of testis. In: Rosai and Ackerman’s surgical pathology, vol 1, 9th edn. Mosby, Philadelphia, pp 1417–1435

  7. See WA, Laurenzo JF, Dreicer R, Hoffman HT (1996) Incidence and management of testicular carcinoma metastatic to the neck. J Urol 155:590–592

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  8. Ulbright TM, Roth LM (1999) Testicular and paratesticular tumors: choriocarcinoma. In: Sternberg SS (eds) Diagnostic surgical pathology, vol 2, 3rd edn. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, pp 1995–1996

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Pathology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Sina Hospital, Hassan Abad Square, 11364, Tehran, Iran

    Sayed Ali Ahmadi

  2. Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Sina Hospital, Tehran, Iran

    Hassan Tavakoli

  3. Department of Pathology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Sina Hospital, Tehran, Iran

    Nasrin Samadi

Authors
  1. Sayed Ali Ahmadi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Hassan Tavakoli
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Nasrin Samadi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Sayed Ali Ahmadi.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Ahmadi, S.A., Tavakoli, H. & Samadi, N. Neck mass as the first presentation of testicular choriocarcinoma. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 263, 290–292 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-005-0982-6

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-005-0982-6

Keywords

Search

Navigation