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Colonic Carcinoma Masquerading as Scrotal Swelling: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Tumours of the spermatic cord are rare. Most tumours of the spermatic cord are metastatic and are typically an incidental finding at orchidectomy for other pathology. Primary pathology is usually from the gastrointestinal tract. We report a very rare presentation of an asymptomatic gastrointestinal...

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Autores principales: Paravastu, Sharath C. V., Batra, Meenakshi, Ananthakrishnan, Krishnan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17619770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2007.156
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description Tumours of the spermatic cord are rare. Most tumours of the spermatic cord are metastatic and are typically an incidental finding at orchidectomy for other pathology. Primary pathology is usually from the gastrointestinal tract. We report a very rare presentation of an asymptomatic gastrointestinal tumour as a spermatic cord mass. male patient presented with a painless scrotal swelling. Radical orchidectomy revealed an adenocarcinoma in the spermatic cord. Further investigations disclosed an adenocarcinoma of the descending colon, metastasing to the spermatic cord that gave a false notion of a scrotal swelling secondary to infection. This unusual situation reminds us that spermatic cord metastases are rare. In the event of nonresponding scrotal swelling to antibiotics, further investigations would be prudent, whilst awaiting the definitive pathology report from the radical orchidectomy.
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spelling pubmed-59013182018-06-03 Colonic Carcinoma Masquerading as Scrotal Swelling: A Case Report and Review of Literature Paravastu, Sharath C. V. Batra, Meenakshi Ananthakrishnan, Krishnan ScientificWorldJournal Case Study Tumours of the spermatic cord are rare. Most tumours of the spermatic cord are metastatic and are typically an incidental finding at orchidectomy for other pathology. Primary pathology is usually from the gastrointestinal tract. We report a very rare presentation of an asymptomatic gastrointestinal tumour as a spermatic cord mass. male patient presented with a painless scrotal swelling. Radical orchidectomy revealed an adenocarcinoma in the spermatic cord. Further investigations disclosed an adenocarcinoma of the descending colon, metastasing to the spermatic cord that gave a false notion of a scrotal swelling secondary to infection. This unusual situation reminds us that spermatic cord metastases are rare. In the event of nonresponding scrotal swelling to antibiotics, further investigations would be prudent, whilst awaiting the definitive pathology report from the radical orchidectomy. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2007-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5901318/ /pubmed/17619770 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2007.156 Text en Copyright © 2007 Sharath C. V. Paravastu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Colonic Carcinoma Masquerading as Scrotal Swelling: A Case Report and Review of Literature
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title_full Colonic Carcinoma Masquerading as Scrotal Swelling: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Colonic Carcinoma Masquerading as Scrotal Swelling: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Colonic Carcinoma Masquerading as Scrotal Swelling: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short Colonic Carcinoma Masquerading as Scrotal Swelling: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort colonic carcinoma masquerading as scrotal swelling: a case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17619770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2007.156
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