Abstract

VALDERRAMA-GOMEZ, Ricardo Alfredo; CONDORI-SALDANA, Jheidy; CLAROS-GUTIERREZ, Pamela Grace  and  CLAROS-MATIENZO, Claudia Analía. CLINICAL CASE: TESTICULAR CANCER WITH METASTASES. Rev. Méd.-Cient. Luz Vida [online]. 2011, vol.2, n.1, pp. 76-80. ISSN 2219-8032.

Testicular cancer is the most common malignancy in men aged 15-45 years. As a result of therapeutic advances in recent decades and the integration of multimodal treatment, testicular cancer is nowadays one of the most curable malignancies. Non-seminoma Germinal cells tumor type includes embryonic carcinoma, choriocarcinoma, teratoma and yolk sac tumor. Despite of the long-term survival is favorable, multimodal treatment of NSGCT is constantly evolving and incorporating new paradigms. It is described a patient in working age and fertile, who presents a clinical picture of +/- 2 years of evolution, presenting a left testicular painless mass, the which increased progressively associated to weight lost. He presented abdominal pain without fever or history of irritative urinary symptoms. This pathology is rare in our context, seen 3-4 cases per year in Viedma Hospital, with an incidence of 0,8 per 100000 inhabitants/year in Bolivia, so it is important to present it, so it can be diagnosed in less advanced stages.

Keywords : Testicular cancer; Metastases.