[Rare tumor of the epididymis].

Internist (Berl)

IV. Medizinische Klinik, Carl-Thiem-Klinikum, Breisacher Strasse 64, Cottbus, Germany.

Published: August 2009

A 51-year-old man with known ethyl toxic chronic pancreatitis presented with a tumor of the left epididymis. Immunohistological examination disclosed it as a metastasis of a pancreatic carcinoma. Paratesticular metastases of a pancreatic carcinoma are very rare. Nevertheless a metastasis of a primary pancreatic carcinoma should be included in the differential diagnosis of a tumor of the paratesticular tissue. The epididymis should be integrated in the diagnostic procedures of pancreatic carcinoma.

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