A 51-year-old man was referred at the urological department due to the primary suspicion of a left testicular cancer. Staging computed tomography of the thorax, abdomen, and pelvis was negative for lymphatic or hematogeneous metastatic tumor spread. Moreover, testicular tumor markers such as α-fetoprotein (AFP) and beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG), and preoperative hormone levels (testosterone, LH, FSH) were within normal ranges.\nTesticular ultrasound confirmed a 0.9 × 0.9 × 1.0 cm rounded, peripheral, and hyperechoic lesion of the lower pole of the left testicle (Fig. a) connected with the tunica albuginea, without pathological signs of the right testicle. No exact vascular signs or vascular flow within this lesion were reproducible on baseline color and power Doppler sonography (Fig. b). Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (LOGIQ E9 ultrasound machine by GE Healthcare, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA) was performed as an additional diagnostic tool to clarify the vascularization of the suspicious lesion. Interestingly, the lesion was contrast-absorbing after bolus contrast agent application of 2.4 cc (SonoVue, Bracco, Milan, Italy), Fig. c. Moreover, real-time elastography (RTE) of the left testis was performed to evaluate the tissue elasticity of the tumor mass, showing a hard lesion (Fig. d). In summary, multiparametric ultrasound confirmed a vascularized and hardened lesion, therefore being suspicious of testicular cancer.\nNext, inguinal exploration with organ-sparing surgery and tumor enucleation was performed without ischemia. Intraoperative frozen section analysis of the tumor and tumor bed biopsies was performed, providing no evidence of malignant germ cell tumor or testicular intraepithelial neoplasia (TIN). Final pathology report confirmed a completely removed adenomatoid tumor of the left testicle arising from the tunica albuginea.
A 35 year-old male presented with a right-sided, scrotal swelling of three days’ duration associated with acute scrotal pain of increasing severity. His past medical history was not significant and there was no history of trauma. Clinical examination revealed an enlarged, firm, tender nodule, three cm in diameter, while the contralateral testis was normal. A clinical diagnosis of torsion testis/testicular neoplasm was made. All routine investigations gave normal results. An emergency scrotal ultrasonography (USG) revealed a 2.5 cm, single, ovoid, well-defined, hypoechoic, solitary mass in the right testis. Guided aspiration was done under local anesthesia using a 10 mL syringe and a 24 gauge needle to obtain a scanty, grey-white aspirate. The smears were stained with hematoxylin-eosin (H and E), Papanicolaou, and May-Grünwald-Giemsa (MGG) stains. The smears were moderately cellular, consisting of tumor cells arranged in sheets and clusters. The cells were round to oval, having eccentric, vesicular nuclei with a fine granular chromatin along with a pale/vacuolated cytoplasm []. A cytological diagnosis of adenomatoid tumor was made. The patient underwent orchidectomy as the mass was firmly adherent to the tunica albugenia making conservative surgery unfeasible. The specimen showed the testis with a well circumscribed, encapsulated mass measuring 2.5 × 2 cm [] and its cut section was gray white. Histopathological examination (HPE) showed cuboidal to flat epithelial cells in solid cords, some lining the cystic spaces. Some of these epithelial cells showed prominent cytoplasmic vacuolation. Intervening stroma showed fibrocollagenous tissue with sparse lymphocytic infiltrates []. These features were consistent with those of an adenomatoid tumor.