Ruptured Intra-Abdominal Seminoma in a Young Man: A Case Report

Cryptorchidism is said to be, when one or both testes are missing from the scrotum. This condition mostly affects one testicle, but in ten percent of time, both testes can be involved. Many factors contribute to this problem, including: born prematurely, low birth weight, twinning, being born as small for gestational age, cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption by 1 mother during pregnancy. Cryptorchidism might be diagnosed during a physical examination when baby is born or at any checkup after birth, by "palpation" on 2 examination by the doctor. If the normal descend of testes do not occur, many complications can occur like deficiency in sperm count and poor quality of sperm can occur due temperature rise in undescended testes. There is a lower risk of developing carcinoma as a complication, approximately one percent but still the 3 risk persists. Seminoma is the commonest malignancy in such testes, while malignancy being testicular germ 3 cell tumors. Along its pathway of formation and descent, the testes can be found anywhere along, but to be present in abdomen is most prominent. Out of malignancy forming in all undescended testes, there is a rate of occurrence as high as five times in intra4 abdominal testes. Orchiectomy, staging of the disease using radiology and tumor marker testing, and subsequent chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy leads the treatment options in such cases. Department of Surgery, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital Karachi, Pakistan. Correspondence to: Dr. Sobia Majeed, Email: ORCiD: dr.sobiamajeed@yahoo.com, 0000-0003-4552-1347 Sobia Majeed, Shameen Shoaib, Muhammad Jamaluddin, Imran Khan, Muhammad Tahir CASE REPORT JDUHS