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* Solid, firm without cross section | * Solid, firm without cross section | ||
* Solid fleshy tan to yellow mass in homogeneous appearance | * Solid fleshy tan to yellow mass in [[homogeneous]] appearance | ||
* Well-circumscribed with small hemorraghic and necrotic areas | * Well-circumscribed with small hemorraghic and [[necrotic]] areas | ||
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* Large nucleoli with clear to pale to eosinophilic cytoplasm due to the presence of glycogen | * Large nucleoli with clear to pale to eosinophilic [[cytoplasm]] due to the presence of glycogen | ||
* Clonal proliferation of neoplastic [[germ cells]] | * Clonal proliferation of neoplastic [[germ cells]] | ||
* Fried-egg appearance | * Fried-egg appearance | ||
* Prominent mitotic figures | * Prominent mitotic figures | ||
* Nests and sheets of cancer cells with "squared-off" nuclei | * Nests and sheets of cancer cells with "squared-off" nuclei | ||
* Granulomatous inflammation | * [[Granulomatous]] [[inflammation]] | ||
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* Large hemorraghic and necrotic foci. | * Large hemorraghic and necrotic foci. | ||
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* Presents with mixed histological features (solid, papular, glandular) | * Presents with mixed [[histological]] features (solid, papular, glandular) | ||
* Marked nuclear atypia | * Marked nuclear atypia | ||
* Marked epithelial cells with polymorphism | * Marked [[epithelial cells]] with [[polymorphism]] | ||
* Large nuclei with abundant amphophilic cytoplasm | * Large nuclei with abundant amphophilic cytoplasm | ||
* Prominent mitotic activities | * Prominent [[mitotic]] activities | ||
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*Hyaline-type globules | *Hyaline-type globules | ||
* Schiller-Duval bodies | * Schiller-Duval bodies | ||
* Multiple histological patterns such as recticular, microcystic, glandular, papillary, hepatoid, and solid | * Multiple histological patterns such as recticular, microcystic, glandular, [[papillary]], hepatoid, and solid | ||
* Associated with myxoid stroma | * Associated with myxoid [[stroma]] | ||
* Variable cytologic atypia | * Variable cytologic atypia | ||
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!Choriocarcinoma | !Choriocarcinoma | ||
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* Hemorrhagic and necrotic nodules | * Hemorrhagic and necrotic [[nodules]] | ||
* May appear more cystic and calcified in homogeneous | * May appear more cystic and calcified in homogeneous | ||
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* More Hemorrhagic and necrotic | * More Hemorrhagic and necrotic | ||
* Made up of mononucleated trophoblast and multinucleated syncytiotrophoblast cells | * Made up of mononucleated [[trophoblast]] and multinucleated syncytiotrophoblast cells | ||
* Hyperchomatic cytoplasm | * Hyperchomatic [[cytoplasm]] | ||
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!Teratoma, postpubertal-type | !Teratoma, postpubertal-type | ||
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* Hetereogenous, cystic and irregular calcification on appearance | * Hetereogenous, cystic and irregular [[calcification]] on appearance | ||
* Solid, firm mass | * Solid, firm mass | ||
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* Arrange in disorder fashion | * Arrange in disorder fashion | ||
* Cytologic atypia | * Cytologic atypia | ||
* High mitotic activities | * High [[mitotic]] activities | ||
* Presence of 3 germ cells layers | * Presence of 3 germ cells layers | ||
* Presence of immature elements with primitive nuclei | * Presence of immature elements with primitive nuclei | ||
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*Microscopic findings are variable depending on the tumor type | *Microscopic findings are variable depending on the tumor type | ||
*May have the component of | *May have the component of yolk salk and [[choriocarcinoma]] | ||
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* Atyical mitoses activiyies | * Atyical mitoses activiyies | ||
* Eosinophilic cytoplasm without glycogen | * [[Eosinophilic]] cytoplasm without glycogen | ||
* Tumors cells with three different sizes (small, intermediate, and large) | * Tumors cells with three different sizes (small, intermediate, and large) | ||
* Polymorphism with"spirene" chromatin find in the giant cells | * Polymorphism with"spirene" chromatin find in the giant cells | ||
*<nowiki/>Freque<nowiki/>nt apoptosis | *<nowiki/>Freque<nowiki/>nt [[apoptosis]] | ||
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* Lack of cytologic atypia | * Lack of cytologic atypia | ||
* No mitotic activities | * No [[mitotic]] activities | ||
* Absence of immature elements | * Absence of immature elements | ||
* Desmoid cyst has polosebaceous cells | * [[Desmoid tumor|Desmoid]] cyst has polosebaceous cells | ||
* Epidermoist cyst is surrounded with squamous epithelial cells | * Epidermoist cyst is surrounded with squamous [[epithelial cells]] | ||
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* Vascular invasion | * Vascular invasion | ||
* Pleomorphic tumor cells | * [[Pleomorphic]] tumor cells | ||
* Large irregular nuclei | * Large irregular [[nuclei]] | ||
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* Cells are arranged in nest, sheets polygonal fahsion | * Cells are arranged in nest, sheets polygonal fahsion | ||
* Cytoplasm is eosinophilic with round nuclei and prominent nucleoli | * [[Cytoplasm]] is [[eosinophilic]] with round [[nuclei]] and prominent nucleoli | ||
* Presence of lipofuscin pigment and reinke crystal intracytoplasmic | * Presence of [[lipofuscin]] pigment and reinke crystal intracytoplasmic | ||
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* Cells are arranged in cords, nests and lobulated tubules | * Cells are arranged in cords, nests and lobulated tubules | ||
* Fibrous stroma ans septa with lymphocytes | * Fibrous [[stroma]] ans septa with lymphocytes | ||
* Elongated spaces and microscysts | * Elongated spaces and microscysts | ||
* Pale lipid- rich cytoplasm | * Pale lipid- rich cytoplasm | ||
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* No distint feature | * No distint feature | ||
Juvenile type | Juvenile type | ||
* Solid, nodule yellow-orange and cystic mass | * Solid, [[nodule]] yellow-orange and cystic mass | ||
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Juvenile type | Juvenile type | ||
*Cells are presented in solid sheets and nodules and form the estatic space | *Cells are presented in solid sheets and nodules and form the estatic space | ||
*Eosinophilic | *[[Eosinophilic]] [[cytoplasm]] | ||
*Hyperchromatic, round to oval nuclei | *Hyperchromatic, round to oval [[nuclei]] | ||
*High mitotic activities | *High [[mitotic]] activities | ||
*Follicles are located on the periphery | *Follicles are located on the periphery | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Gertrude Djouka, M.D.[2], Shanshan Cen, M.D. [3]
Overview
The pathophysiology of testicular cancer depends on the histological cell subtypes and findings. Most testicular cancers derived from the lack of differentiation of primordial germ cell into spermatogonia. On microscopic histopathological analysis of testicular cancer, fried-egg appearance is the characteristic finding of seminoma; marked nuclear atypia is the characteristic finding of embryonal carcinoma; blander cytomorphology, hyaline-type globules, and Schiller-Duval bodies are characteristic findings of yolk sac tumor ; syncytiotrophoblasts and cytotrophoblast cells are the characteristic findings of choriocarcinoma.
Pathogenesis
Normal process of testicular germ cells
- Primordial germ cell mass leads to gonocytes through cell proliferation
- Gonocytes differentiate into spermatogonia
Normal process of testicular sex cord stromal
Leydig cells
- Leydig cells are found in the seminiferous tubules of the testis.[3][4]
- Leydig cells secrete testosterone hormone under the signal of luteinizing hormone.
- Leydig cells are involved in the development of male secondary sexual characteristics and spermatogenesis.
Germ cells tumors
Germ cell tumors derived from germ cell neoplasia in situ
- Lack of primordial germ cell to differentiate into spermatogonia leads to germ cell neoplasia in Situ[2]
- Germ cell neoplasia in Situ may gain some abnormal chromosome(12), then it leads to seminomas and nonseminomas cancers.
- Seminomas and non seminotous germ cell tumors have similar pathogenesis[5][6]
- Aneuploid
- Loss of chromosomes 4,5,11,13,18, and Y
- Gain of chromosomes 7,8,12, and X
- More than 90% of all testicular cancers are germ cell tumors. This type of cancer starts in germ cells, which are the cells that develop into sperms.
- About 50% of all germ cell tumors are seminomas, or seminomatous germ cell tumours. They grow slower than non-seminomas.
- Overrepresentation of short arm of chromosomes 12p may be related to invasive growth of seminomas and nonseminomatous testicular cancer.[7]
- Seminomas tumors may have both genetic and immune components due to lymphocytes infiltration in HIV patients.[8]
- Histological of seminomas tumor in HIV patients: tumor infiltrated by lymphocytes which may lead to weak immune system response.[8]
- familial contribution:[9]
- Gene on chromosome Xq27 may be related to testicular germ cell tumors
- Some proteins such as C-kit (receptor) and placental-like alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) may be excessively expressed[10]
- Mutations from the proteins that may be involved in the maturation of the spermatogonia.[11]
- Mostly located in the testis and rarely metastases
- Mutated proteins invovloved:SAGE1 and SSX2-4
- Hypothesis of gain of chromosome 9 may be involved in the process.[12]
Testicular sex cord stromal tumors
Leydig cells tumor
- The pathogenesis of leydig cells tumors is not well understood.[3][13]
- It is hypothesized that there is a disturbance of hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis which lead to excess of hormone productions.
- The G proteins in the leydig cells and the structure alteration of Luteinizing hormone receptors may play role in leydig cells tumors.
Sertoli cell tumor
Granulosa cell tumor
Gross and Microscopic Pathology
The gross and microscopic features of the most common tumors are described below:[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][17][21][22][23][24][25][3][26][27][28]
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| Mixed germ cell tumors |
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| Spermatocytic tumor |
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Adult type
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Genetics
These are genes involved in the pathogenesis of testicular cancer:[29][30]
- Chromosome 12p
- 12q22.2
Immunohistochemical Markers
- Choriocarcinoma:[12]
- +Ck7
- +GATA3
- +HCG
- +/-Sall4
- Spermatocytic tumor:[12]
- +Sall4
- +/-C-kit
- Leydig cell tumor:[3][37]
- +Inhibin
- +Calretinin
- +Melan-A
- +Vimentin
References
- ↑ Miyai, Kosuke; Ito, Keiichi; Nakanishi, Kuniaki; Tsuda, Hitoshi (2019). "Seminoma component of mixed testicular germ cell tumor shows a higher incidence of loss of heterozygosity than pure-type seminoma". Human Pathology. 84: 71–80. doi:10.1016/j.humpath.2018.09.007. ISSN 0046-8177.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kraggerud SM, Hoei-Hansen CE, Alagaratnam S, Skotheim RI, Abeler VM, Rajpert-De Meyts E, Lothe RA (June 2013). "Molecular characteristics of malignant ovarian germ cell tumors and comparison with testicular counterparts: implications for pathogenesis". Endocr. Rev. 34 (3): 339–76. doi:10.1210/er.2012-1045. PMC 3787935. PMID 23575763.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Al-Agha OM, Axiotis CA (February 2007). "An in-depth look at Leydig cell tumor of the testis". Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 131 (2): 311–7. doi:10.1043/1543-2165(2007)131[311:AILALC]2.0.CO;2. PMID 17284120.
- ↑ Neaves WB (May 1975). "Leydig cells". Contraception. 11 (5): 571–606. PMID 1095296.
- ↑ Bray F, Richiardi L, Ekbom A, Forman D, Pukkala E, Cuninkova M, Møller H (April 2006). "Do testicular seminoma and nonseminoma share the same etiology? Evidence from an age-period-cohort analysis of incidence trends in eight European countries". Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 15 (4): 652–8. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-05-0565. PMID 16614105.
- ↑ Linke J, Loy V, Dieckmann KP (May 2005). "Prevalence of testicular intraepithelial neoplasia in healthy males". J. Urol. 173 (5): 1577–9. doi:10.1097/01.ju.0000154348.68575.95. PMID 15821489.
- ↑ Rosenberg C, Van Gurp RJ, Geelen E, Oosterhuis JW, Looijenga LH (November 2000). "Overrepresentation of the short arm of chromosome 12 is related to invasive growth of human testicular seminomas and nonseminomas". Oncogene. 19 (51): 5858–62. PMID 11127816.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Powles T, Bower M, Daugaard G, Shamash J, De Ruiter A, Johnson M, Fisher M, Anderson J, Mandalia S, Stebbing J, Nelson M, Gazzard B, Oliver T (May 2003). "Multicenter study of human immunodeficiency virus-related germ cell tumors". J. Clin. Oncol. 21 (10): 1922–7. doi:10.1200/JCO.2003.09.107. PMID 12743144.
- ↑ Rapley, Elizabeth A.; Crockford, Gillian P.; Teare, Dawn; Biggs, Patrick; Seal, Sheila; Barfoot, Rita; Edwards, Sandra; Hamoudi, Rifat; Heimdal, Ketil; Fosså, Sophie D.; Tucker, Kathy; Donald, Jenny; Collins, Felicity; Friedlander, Michael; Hogg, David; Goss, Paul; Heidenreich, Axel; Ormiston, Wilma; Daly, Peter A.; Forman, David; Oliver, Timothy D.; Leahy, Michael; Huddart, Robert; Cooper, Colin S.; Bodmer, Julia G.; Easton, Douglas F.; Stratton, Michael R.; Bishop, D. Timothy (2000). "Localization to Xq27 of a susceptibility gene for testicular germ-cell tumours". Nature Genetics. 24 (2): 197–200. doi:10.1038/72877. ISSN 1061-4036.
- ↑ Hoei-Hansen CE, Rajpert-De Meyts E, Daugaard G, Skakkebaek NE (June 2005). "Carcinoma in situ testis, the progenitor of testicular germ cell tumours: a clinical review". Ann. Oncol. 16 (6): 863–8. doi:10.1093/annonc/mdi175. PMID 15821122.
- ↑ Looijenga LH (August 2011). "Spermatocytic seminoma: toward further understanding of pathogenesis". J. Pathol. 224 (4): 431–3. doi:10.1002/path.2939. PMID 21725972.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Howitt BE, Berney DM (December 2015). "Tumors of the Testis: Morphologic Features and Molecular Alterations". Surg Pathol Clin. 8 (4): 687–716. doi:10.1016/j.path.2015.07.007. PMID 26612222.
- ↑ Conkey DS, Howard GC, Grigor KM, McLaren DB, Kerr GR (August 2005). "Testicular sex cord-stromal tumours: the Edinburgh experience 1988-2002, and a review of the literature". Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 17 (5): 322–7. PMID 16097561.
- ↑ Boccellino M, Vanacore D, Zappavigna S, Cavaliere C, Rossetti S, D'Aniello C, Chieffi P, Amler E, Buonerba C, Di Lorenzo G, Di Franco R, Izzo A, Piscitelli R, Iovane G, Muto P, Botti G, Perdonà S, Caraglia M, Facchini G (November 2017). "Testicular cancer from diagnosis to epigenetic factors". Oncotarget. 8 (61): 104654–104663. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.20992. PMC 5732834. PMID 29262668.
- ↑ Howitt BE, Berney DM (December 2015). "Tumors of the Testis: Morphologic Features and Molecular Alterations". Surg Pathol Clin. 8 (4): 687–716. doi:10.1016/j.path.2015.07.007. PMID 26612222.
- ↑ Siegel RL, Miller KD, Jemal A (2016). "Cancer statistics, 2016". CA Cancer J Clin. 66 (1): 7–30. doi:10.3322/caac.21332. PMID 26742998.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Krag Jacobsen G, Barlebo H, Olsen J, Schultz HP, Starklint H, Søgaard H; et al. (1984). "Testicular germ cell tumours in Denmark 1976-1980. Pathology of 1058 consecutive cases". Acta Radiol Oncol. 23 (4): 239–47. PMID 6093440.
- ↑ Emerson RE, Cheng L (April 2013). "Premalignancy of the testis and paratestis". Pathology. 45 (3): 264–72. doi:10.1097/PAT.0b013e32835f3e1a. PMID 23478232.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Boccellino M, Vanacore D, Zappavigna S, Cavaliere C, Rossetti S, D'Aniello C, Chieffi P, Amler E, Buonerba C, Di Lorenzo G, Di Franco R, Izzo A, Piscitelli R, Iovane G, Muto P, Botti G, Perdonà S, Caraglia M, Facchini G (November 2017). "Testicular cancer from diagnosis to epigenetic factors". Oncotarget. 8 (61): 104654–104663. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.20992. PMC 5732834. PMID 29262668.
- ↑ Talerman A, Haije WG, Baggerman L (1980). "Serum alphafetoprotein (AFP) in patients with germ cell tumors of the gonads and extragonadal sites: correlation between endodermal sinus (yolk sac) tumor and raised serum AFP". Cancer. 46 (2): 380–5. PMID 6155988.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Simmonds PD, Lee AH, Theaker JM, Tung K, Smart CJ, Mead GM (March 1996). "Primary pure teratoma of the testis". J. Urol. 155 (3): 939–42. PMID 8583612.
- ↑ Shahab N, Doll DC (June 1999). "Testicular lymphoma". Semin. Oncol. 26 (3): 259–69. PMID 10375083.
- ↑ Chuang KL, Liaw CC, Ueng SH, Liao SK, Pang ST, Chang YH, Chuang HC, Chuang CK (March 2010). "Mixed germ cell tumor metastatic to the skin: case report and literature review". World J Surg Oncol. 8: 21. doi:10.1186/1477-7819-8-21. PMC 2851696. PMID 20331874.
- ↑ Ramón y Cajal S, Piñango L, Barat A, Moldenhauer F, Oliva H (March 1987). "Metastatic pure choriocarcinoma of the testis in an elderly man". J. Urol. 137 (3): 516–9. PMID 3820391.
- ↑ Wei Y, Wu S, Lin T, He D, Li X, Liu J, Liu X, Hua Y, Lu P, Wei G (December 2014). "Testicular yolk sac tumors in children: a review of 61 patients over 19 years". World J Surg Oncol. 12: 400. doi:10.1186/1477-7819-12-400. PMC 4326497. PMID 25547829.
- ↑ Cheville JC, Sebo TJ, Lager DJ, Bostwick DG, Farrow GM (November 1998). "Leydig cell tumor of the testis: a clinicopathologic, DNA content, and MIB-1 comparison of nonmetastasizing and metastasizing tumors". Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 22 (11): 1361–7. PMID 9808128.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Young RH (February 2005). "Sex cord-stromal tumors of the ovary and testis: their similarities and differences with consideration of selected problems". Mod. Pathol. 18 Suppl 2: S81–98. doi:10.1038/modpathol.3800311. PMID 15502809.
- ↑ Jimenez-Quintero LP, Ro JY, Zavala-Pompa A, Amin MB, Tetu B, Ordoñez NG, Ayala AG (October 1993). "Granulosa cell tumor of the adult testis: a clinicopathologic study of seven cases and a review of the literature". Hum. Pathol. 24 (10): 1120–5. PMID 8406422.
- ↑ van Echten J, Oosterhuis JW, Looijenga LH, van de Pol M, Wiersema J, te Meerman GJ, Schaffordt Koops H, Sleijfer DT, de Jong B (October 1995). "No recurrent structural abnormalities apart from i(12p) in primary germ cell tumors of the adult testis". Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 14 (2): 133–44. PMID 8527395.
- ↑ Bosl GJ, Motzer RJ (July 1997). "Testicular germ-cell cancer". N. Engl. J. Med. 337 (4): 242–53. doi:10.1056/NEJM199707243370406. PMID 9227931.
- ↑ Jacobsen GK, Nørgaard-Pedersen B (September 1984). "Placental alkaline phosphatase in testicular germ cell tumours and in carcinoma-in-situ of the testis. An immunohistochemical study". Acta Pathol Microbiol Immunol Scand A. 92 (5): 323–9. PMID 6209917.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Santagata S, Ligon KL, Hornick JL (June 2007). "Embryonic stem cell transcription factor signatures in the diagnosis of primary and metastatic germ cell tumors". Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 31 (6): 836–45. doi:10.1097/PAS.0b013e31802e708a. PMID 17527070.
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 Cheng L, Sung MT, Cossu-Rocca P, Jones TD, MacLennan GT, De Jong J, Lopez-Beltran A, Montironi R, Looijenga LH (January 2007). "OCT4: biological functions and clinical applications as a marker of germ cell neoplasia". J. Pathol. 211 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1002/path.2105. PMID 17117392.
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 de Jong J, Stoop H, Dohle GR, Bangma CH, Kliffen M, van Esser JW, van den Bent M, Kros JM, Oosterhuis JW, Looijenga LH (June 2005). "Diagnostic value of OCT3/4 for pre-invasive and invasive testicular germ cell tumours". J. Pathol. 206 (2): 242–9. doi:10.1002/path.1766. PMID 15818593.
- ↑ Cao D, Humphrey PA, Allan RW (June 2009). "SALL4 is a novel sensitive and specific marker for metastatic germ cell tumors, with particular utility in detection of metastatic yolk sac tumors". Cancer. 115 (12): 2640–51. doi:10.1002/cncr.24308. PMID 19365862.
- ↑ Brosman SA (June 1979). "Testicular tumors in prepubertal children". Urology. 13 (6): 581–8. PMID 377749.
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 Iczkowski KA, Bostwick DG, Roche PC, Cheville JC (August 1998). "Inhibin A is a sensitive and specific marker for testicular sex cord-stromal tumors". Mod. Pathol. 11 (8): 774–9. PMID 9720507.
- ↑ Ditonno P, Lucarelli G, Battaglia M, Mancini V, Palazzo S, Trabucco S, Bettocchi C, Paolo Selvaggi F (2007). "Testicular granulosa cell tumor of adult type: a new case and a review of the literature". Urol. Oncol. 25 (4): 322–5. doi:10.1016/j.urolonc.2006.08.019. PMID 17628299.
- ↑ McCluggage WG, Shanks JH, Whiteside C, Maxwell P, Banerjee SS, Biggart JD (May 1998). "Immunohistochemical study of testicular sex cord-stromal tumors, including staining with anti-inhibin antibody". Am. J. Surg. Pathol. 22 (5): 615–9. PMID 9591732.