Inverse Relationship Between Leydig Cell Density and Metastatic Potential of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma by W. John Wang, Y. Albert Yeh, Paul Stout, Kang Fan

“…Materials and methods: Tissue samples from 111 men, age 52–85, with PC and bilateral orchiectomy were evaluated for Leydig cell density. …”
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Paratesticular Serous Borderline Tumor in a Pediatric Patient by Itzel Araceli Ortiz Meza, Marco Antonio Ponce Camacho, Rodolfo Franco Márquez, Mauricio Delgado Morquecho, Raquel Garza Guajardo, Oralia Barboza Quintana

“…We present a 10-year-old male, with right gynecomastia and ipsilateral hydrocele, showing an enlarged right testicle with a volume of 12 ml and a left testicle with a volume of 10 ml. A right orchiectomy was performed, which presented a poorly defined tan tumor of 1.8 cm that occupied the vaginal and epididymal tunica, and infiltrates the testicular parenchyma. …”
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Testicular Cancer Presenting as Gastric Variceal Hemorrhage by Carlos Eduardo Salazar-Mejía, David Hernández-Barajas, Edio Llerena-Hernández, José Luis González-Vela, María Inés Contreras-Salcido, Adriana González-Gutiérrez, Omar David Borjas-Almaguer, Luis Alberto Pérez-Arredondo, Blanca Otilia Wimer-Castillo

“…Neoadjuvant chemotherapy was started with etoposide and cisplatin, and seven days later the patient underwent left radical orchiectomy. A postoperative biopsy revealed a pure testicular teratoma. …”
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Choriocarcinoma Syndrome as an Initial Presentation of Testicular Cancer by Carlos Eduardo Salazar-Mejía, María Elena García-Gutiérrez, María Inés Contreras-Salcido, Carlos Javier Rodríguez-Álvarez, Blanca Otilia Wimer-Castillo, Jackeline Grace Lara-Campos, Edio Llerena-Hernández, José Luis González-Vela, David Hernández-Barajas

“…Histopathological study after right radical orchiectomy showed a mixed germ-cell tumor. Based on poor-risk characteristics, chemotherapy was started with an adequate clinical response. …”
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Age- and sex-specific differences in myocardial sympathetic tone and left ventricular remodeling following myocardial injury by Achi Haider, Susan Bengs, Angela Portmann, Sandro Fröhlich, Dominik Etter, Monika Maredziak, Geoffrey I. Warnock, Alexander Akhmedov, Sebastian Kozerke, Claudia Keller, Fabrizio Montecucco, Bruno Weber, Linjing Mu, Ronny R. Buechel, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Giovanni G. Camici, Simon M. Ametamey, Catherine Gebhard

“…Results MSA and catecholamine levels following myocardial injury were highest in young males (p = 0.008 and p = 0.043 vs. young females, respectively) and were reduced by orchiectomy. Accordingly, testosterone serum levels correlated positively with MSA (r = 0.66, p < 0.001). …”
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Synchronous Bilateral Testicular Tumors with Different Histopathology by Ioannis Anastasiou, Dimitrios Deligiannis, Ioannis Katafigiotis, Ioannis Skarmoutsos, Georgios Karaolanis, Viktoria-Varvara Palla, Afrodite Nonni, Dionysios Mitropoulos, Constantinos A. Constantinides

“…The only elevated biomarker was b-hcG (24,7 mIU/mL) and computer tomography (CT) did not reveal any pathology. Bilateral high orchiectomies were performed, without previous frozen storage of the sperm. …”
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Bilateral Testicular Infarction from IgA Vasculitis of the Spermatic Cords by Mazen Toushan, Ashka Atodaria, Stephen D. Lynch, Hassan D. Kanaan, Limin Yu, Mitual B. Amin, Mamon Tahhan, Ping L. Zhang, Paul S. Kellerman, Abhishek Swami

“…Due to hematuria, a renal biopsy was performed and showed an IgA glomerulonephritis with focal fibrinoid necrosis and neutrophil accumulation. Bilateral orchiectomies were performed in two separate procedures ten and thirteen days after the renal biopsy, as a result of uncontrolled abscess formation in testicles. …”
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