[Non palpable testicular tumors. Retrospective series]. / Tumeurs testiculaires non palpables. Série rétrospective.

OBJECTIVE: To report our experience in 13 cases with nonpalpable testicular tumors and review the literature. MATERIAL AND METHODS: From 1998 to 2012, 13 patients were diagnosed with nonpalpable testicular tumors. The data base was performed prospectively, and analyzed retrospectively. We evaluated demographic data, clinical presentation, ultrasound tumor features, tumor markers, frozen and final histopathological findings. All patients were also evaluated with serum tumor markers and the surgical approach was inguinal. RESULTS: The mean age was 46.4 years and the most frequent clinical presentation were orchialgia in six patients (46.1%) and infertility in three (23%). All masses were hypoechoic with an average tumor size of 8.9 mm. The serum tumor markers were negative in all patients and the final histopathological findings were six seminomas, two embryonal carcinomas, one seminiferous tubules atrophy, a segmental testicular infarction, a Sertoli cell tumor and a Leydig cell tumor. CONCLUSIONS: Nonpalpable testicular masses were benign in almost half of the cases; therefore, we recommend using the frozen section pathology as a tool to perform conservative surgery in selective cases.

Pustulosis exántematica aguda generalizada: Presentación de un caso y revisión de la literatura / Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis: A case report and review of the literature

La pustulosis exantemática aguda generalizada (PEAG) es una enfermedad poco frecuente, de patogenia desconocida, provocada generalmente por fármacos, entre los que se encuentran en primer lugar, los antibióticos del grupo de los betalactámicos. Se presenta el caso de una paciente con esta entidad, provocada por amoxicilina-clavulánico con gran extensión de las lesiones.

Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is a rare disease, with unknown pathogenesis, usually caused by drugs where we can find in the first place, antibiotics that are part of the betalactam group. A case of a patient with this entity, caused by amoxicillin-clavulanic with great extension of the lesions is reported.