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testicular juvenile granulosa tumor

Epidemiology

- <5% pediatric testicular tumors
- 3–9 years in childhood

Clinical features

- Painless unilateral testicular enlargement
- Endocrine features may be present

  • gynecomastia
  • precocious puberty

Macroscopy

- Well circumscribed yellow brown nodule

Microscopy

- Diffuse sheets of large polygonal cells

  • eosinophilic cytoplasm
  • Reinke crystals <40%
  • regular nuclei, prominent nucleoli

- Spindle cell variant
- Malignant behavior (10%) associated with:

  • >5cm diameter
  • cytological atypia
  • mitoses
  • necrosis
  • vascular invasionVariants

Variants

- neonatal testicular juvenile-type granulosa tumor (#20592370#, #20445412#)

  • most frequent neonatal testicular tumor

See also

- juvenile-type granulosa tumor

  • ovarian juvenile-type granulosa tumor