Postchemotherapy resections

Testis and epididymis
Germ cell tumors
Postchemotherapy resections

Author: Turki Al-Hussain, M.D.

Topic Completed: 1 January 2013

Revised: 28 March 2019

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Definition / general | Gross images

Cite this page: Al-Hussain T. Postchemotherapy resections. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/testispostchemo.html. Accessed February 20th, 2020.

Definition / general

Presence of tumor after chemotherapy may determine need for additional chemotherapy
Therapy related changes are foamy macrophages, fibroblastic proliferation, necrotic tumor cells
Persistent teratoma often shows therapy related atypia in tumor and storma but this has no prognostic significance

Gross images

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Lymph node with residual tumor (ypN3)