The usefulness of gallium-67 citrate scanning in testicular seminoma.

An analysis of 77 consecutive patients with a histologic diagnosis of seminoma testis, assessed and treated at the Cross Cancer Institute between 1977 and 1982, is presented. Ga-67 citrate was first used in the assessment of patients with malignant testicular tumors in 1973. Following three years of study that supported the observation of the gallium-avid nature of seminoma, gallium scans became routine in the initial staging assessment and were used also when recurrence was suspected.

Seminoma of the testis: a 22-year experience with radiation therapy.

An analysis is presented of 188 patients with a histological diagnosis of seminoma testis, treated by radical orchiectomy and radiation therapy between 1960 and 1981 at the Cross Cancer Institute. Using the Walter Reed Hospital staging classification, 149 (79%) patients were Stage I, 34 (18%) were Stage II, and 5 (3%) were Stage III. The 5-year survival for all stages was 90%, and for Stage I was 98%, Stage II, 71%, and Stage III, 0%.

Staging laparotomy for Hodgkin's disease in 69 patients.

Sixty-nine patients with biopsy-proven Hodgkin's disease were subjected to laparotomy, splenectomy, liver biopsy, bone biopsy, and para-aortic nodal biopsies between October 1970 and December 1975, and have now been followed for 5 years. There were no major short-term surgical complications. There was one death from septicemia in a splenectomized adolescent.