Material y métodos: Se incluyeron 57 pacientes sometidos a orquiectomía radical por neoplasia testiculargerminal y se revisaron las variables clínicopatológicas y ultrasonográficas.
Resultados: Hubo 30 hombres (52,6%) sin MT y 27 hombres con MT (48,27%). Los pacientes conMT tuvieron mayor proporción de tumor germinal no seminomatoso (TGNS, 55,6% vs 30%, p=0,05),de cáncer testicular estadio II/III (51,8% vs 16,7%, p=0,005), de borde quirúrgico positivo (18,5% vs0%, p=0,021) y de invasión al cordón espermático (14,8% vs 0%, p=0,048). No se encontró diferenciasignificativa en relación a otras variables histopatológicas.
Conclusión: En este estudio se demostró una asociación entre MT en tumores testiculares con elhallazgo de TGNS, estadio clínico avanzado, borde quirúrgico positivo e invasión al cordón.
Material and methods: 57 patients subjected to a radical orchiectomy for testicular germinal neoplasms were included in the study. Both clinicopathological and ultrasonographic variables were analyzed.
Results: No evidence of TM was found in 30 men (52,6%), whereas 27 did exhibit evidence of TM (48,27%). Patients with TM had a higher incidence of nonseminomatous germ cell tumor (NSGCT, 55.6% vs 30% p=0.048), stage II/III testicular cancer (51.8% vs 16.7%, p=0.005), positive surgical margins (18.5% vs 0%, p=0.021) and spermatic cord invasion (14.8% vs 0%, p=0.048). No significant difference with regard to other histopathologic variables was seen.
Conclusion: The present study showed a relationship between TM in testicular tumors and NSGCT in advanced clinical stage, positive surgical margins and cord invasion.