A case report of malignant sertoli cell tumor

PubMed, the Internet portal of biomedical and life sciences literature, indexed an interesting article, entitled A case report of malignant sertoli cell tumor (Nippon Hinyokika Gakkai Zasshi. 2008 Jul;99(5):656-9). Authors are Sassa N, Yoshino Y Matsukawa Y et al., from the Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Urology. Malignant sertoli cell tumor is a rare disease and only a few cases have been described previously. We report a terminal case of malignant sertoli cell tumor. A 38-year-old male visited a hospital with a complaint of swelling his left testis. He underwent high left orchiectomy. After 30 days, he had multiple liver metastases and died 27 months after orchiectomy. All tumor markers were negative in his all clinical courses. To access the full abstract of the article, click here.