Report of an Unusual Case: Testicular Involvement of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia 10 Years after the Complete Response ND03-ND04
Correspondence
1. Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Urology Clinic, Ankara, Turkey.
2. Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Urology Clinic, Ankara, Turkey.
3. Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Urology Clinic, Ankara, Turkey.
4. Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Pathology Clinic, Ankara, Turkey.
5. Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Urology Clinic, Ankara, Turkey.
Testicular extra-medullary myeloid cell tumours are rare tumours presenting in most cases with painless testicular swelling. We present here a case of 21-year-old man with painless scrotal swelling. From his medical history, he was treated by allogenic bone-marrow transplantation and chemotherapy 10 years ago because of chronic myeloid leukemia. The pathology of orchiectomy specimen revealed malign cells with blastic cell infiltration means a late relapse of chronic myeloid leukemia. The patient has been in hematological remission and no evidence of any myeloid disorders by 10 years’ follow up. Although testicular involvement is a rare and an unusual event in blast crisis of chronic myeloid leukemia, extramedullary myeloid cell tumour should be considered in the diagnosis of intratesticular tumours.