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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài:Burned-out testicular tumor with retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis: a case report | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL Sr CASE REPORTS Open Access Case report Burned-out testicular tumor with retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis a case report Stylianos Kontos1 Grigorios Doumanis1 Maria Karagianni2 Vasilios Politis1 Vasileios Simaioforidis1 Stefanos Kachrilas1 and Sotirios Koritsiadis1 Addresses Department of Urology General Hospital of Nikea Mantouvalou St Nikea Piraeus 18454 Greece 2Department of Pathology General Hospital of Nikea Mantouvalou St Nikea Piraeus 18454 Greece Email SK - kontostylianos@ GD - g_douman@ MK - Antikarra@ VP - bpolitis@ VS - SK - skachrilas@ SK - skoritsiadis@ Corresponding author Received 28 August 2008 Accepted 9 February 2009 Published 31 July 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 8705 doi 1752-1947-3-8705 This article is available from http jmedicalcasereports article view 8705 2009 Kontos et al. licensee Cases Network Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction A burned-out seminoma of the testis is an exceptionally rare clinical entity with few reports found in the literature. Case presentation A case of burned-out tumor of the testis in a 31-year-old man is reported. The tumor presented as a retroperitoneal mass with histological characteristic of a seminoma. The testes on clinical examination were normal and a suspicious lesion in the scrotum was only identified after ultrasound. Incision of the abdominal mass was decided followed by orchectomy. Histological examination of the testis revealed a suspicious lesion with characteristics of spontaneous regression of germ cell tumors. Conclusion We describe one of very few cases worldwide where spontaneous regression of a primary