Clinical aspects of testicular carcinoma‐in‐situ

Abstract

Carcinoma-in-situ germ cells were demonstrated in testicular biopsies from 9 of 826 patients (1.1%) from a selected group of Danish infertile men. A similar observation was noted in testicular biopsies from 9 Swiss patients (representing 0.55% of the total number of infertile patients biopsied in that study). Such changes were also seen in 8 testicular biopsies from the contralateral testis of 180 patients (4.4%) with carcinoma of the teitis. Moreover, carcinoma-in-situ has beer, found in maldecended testes and in gonads of patients with the testicular feminization syndrome although the incidence of carcinoma-in-situ in these two latter groups is unknown. The malignant potential of carcinoma-in-situ of the testis in infertile men has been clearly demonstrated, whereas its clinical significance in other groups of patients remains to be determined.