Deb Mainak, Alexander Betty, Das Kanishka
Department of Paediatric Surgery, St. John's Medical College Hospital, St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Johnnagara, Bangalore 560034, India.
Pediatr Surg Int. 2010 Feb;26(2):233-5. doi: 10.1007/s00383-009-2528-2.
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 a3-year old child is presented.
