Thoracic spinal cord compression & aortic thrombosis; an unusual presentation of seminoma

Abstract

Testicular cancers are particularly treatable neoplasms, with five-year survival over 95%.1 An increasing proportion of testicular tumours are seminomas, at the expense of non-seminomas, and the age at time of presentation is also increasing.2 Seminomas are particularly likely to present with localised disease, approximately 80% present with disease limited to the testicle, and less than 5% spread beyond the retroperitoneal nodes at presentation.1