Histopathology of Carcinoma of the Testicle

Geist, Samuel H.; Thalhimer, William

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“…However, it was another thesis by a French investigator, Maurice Chevassu (Figure ), that left an indelible stamp on the field, as in it he described, in 1906, seminoma clearly for the first time. It became established as the best‐known testicular tumour, and it dominated contributions on testicular masses over the ensuing decades . Another French contribution of note was made 30 years later, when Albert Peyron described within testicular neoplasms the enigmatic, picturesque structures known as ‘embryoid bodies’, which, when accounting for most of a neoplasm, warrant the designation polyembryoma …”

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“…It became established as the best-known testicular tumour, and it dominated contributions on testicular masses over the ensuing decades. [10][11][12][13][14] Another French contribution of note was made 30 years later, when Albert Peyron 15,16 described within testicular neoplasms the enigmatic, picturesque structures known as 'embryoid bodies', which, when accounting for most of a neoplasm, warrant the designation polyembryoma. 17 In 1946, yet another French investigator, Pierre Masson (working in Quebec), made a major contribution when he identified, from within seminomatous tumours, a distinctive neoplasm, the spermatocytic seminoma.…”

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The history of urologic pathology: an overview

Young

Eble

2018

Histopathology

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This article begins with the testis and a legendary figure, Sir Astley Cooper, who wrote an early text on the organ. The early 20th century saw the first major development, the description of the seminoma by the French investigator Maurice Chevassu, but the pace of knowledge did not accelerate until after World War II with a major article from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) by Nathan B. Friedman and Robert A. Moore, soon followed by the first series testis fascicle by Frank J. Dixon and Moore. Other noteworthy contributions were made by two masters of gonadal pathology, Gunnar Teilum and Robert E. Scully. In the 1970s, Niels E. Skakkebaek played a seminal role in elaborating in‐situ neoplasia of the testis. The school of British testicular tumour authored, in the mid‐1970s, under the editorship of Roger C. B. Pugh, one of the best texts on testicular pathology. Advances in more recent years have been largely spearheaded by Thomas M. Ulbright of the Indiana University School of Medicine. Observations on the prostate gland date back to Andreas Vesalius and William Cheselden, the latter appearing to have introduced the word for the gland. Note is made of contributions on the anatomy and histology of the gland by Oswald Lowsley, L. M. Franks, and John McNeal. Diagnosing carcinoma of the prostate was brought into the modern age in a landmark 1953 article by Robert S. Totten et al. In the 1960s, Donald F. Gleason introduced a grading system that is now in use worldwide. The topic of premalignant lesions has been well established only for approximately three decades, based initially on the work of Dr McNeal and David G. Bostwick. One of the first to write a book on the bladder was the remarkable British surgeon‐pathologist Sir Henry Thompson. Workers at the AFIP, including Colonel James E. Ash and Fatallah K. Mostofi, wrote many outstanding articles on bladder pathology. The roles of other institutions, such as Johns Hopkins University, the Mayo Clinic, and St Peter's Hospital Institute of Urology, London, and those who worked there are noted. Knowledge of the pathology of the urachus dates largely back to the remarkable book on the topic in 1916 by the Hopkins investigator Thomas S. Cullen. Information on renal tumours dates largely to the work of Paul Grawitz, but awareness of the many variants of renal cell carcinoma in general was slow to evolve, and has only accelerated in recent years. The AFIP group of Dr Mostofi, ably assisted by Colonel Charles J. Davis and Isabell A. Sesterhenn, has contributed to knowledge of renal neoplasia with articles of note on oncocytoma, metanephric adenoma, and medullary carcinoma. In the mid‐1980s, the German workers Wolfgang Thoenes and Stephan Störkel recognised the distinctive tumour known as chromophobe renal cell carcinoma. Work on renal tumours in the young owes much to J. Bruce Beckwith. The observational talents of numerous investigators have, in just over a century, advanced our knowledge of diseases of the urinary tract and testis remarkably.

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The history of urologic pathology: an overview

Young

Eble

2018

Histopathology

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“…Although in the ensuing years it was not always given the name elected by Chevassu, séminome, or its English language version, it was highlighted as a distinct neoplasm in most of the notable contributions on testicular tumors. [9][10][11][12][13] In 1939, a French histologist, Albert Peyron, 14 described within a testicular teratoma the enigmatic and picturesque structures which are known in the English language as 'embryoid bodies'. Peyron was remarkably prolific on this topic; in a later contribution on the subject 15 no less than 17 papers of Peyron are cited!…”

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A brief history of the pathology of the gonads

Young

2005

Mod Pathol

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Our understanding of gonadal pathology has reached its current state as a result of the contributions of numerous outstanding investigators. Knowledge of testicular tumor pathology dates back to the great British workers Percival Pott and Sir Astley Cooper but the single greatest early stride was made with the description in 1906 by the French urologist Maurice Chevassu of the seminoma. The seminal 1946 paper of Nathan B Friedman and Robert A Moore, which segregated out as a distinct entity embryonal carcinoma, is, however, the foundation for the current classification of testicular tumors. In that year Pierre Masson described the distinctive neoplasm, the spermatocytic seminoma. The 1950s saw the publication of an important paper by Frank J Dixon and Dr Moore and they also wrote the first series fascicle on testicular tumors. In this same timeframe, and thereafter, Robert E Scully made significant contributions to testicular pathology, writing the first English language paper on spermatocytic seminoma, describing several subtypes of sex cord tumor, and also the distinctive lesion of intersex, the gonadoblastoma, as well as playing a major role in 1980 in formulating the current classification of premalignant lesions of the testis. The current classification of testicular tumors was arrived at in the early 1970s when the World Health Organization, under the leadership of Dr FK Mostofi, who himself made notable contributions to testicular pathology, devised what is fundamentally the current classification of neoplasms of the male gonad. Although comments on ovarian pathology were made by such legendary figures of earlier times as Giovanni Battista Morgagni and Matthew Baillie, it is only in the mid to later years of the 19th century that contributions, mostly in Europe, began to move knowledge of ovarian pathology to its current state. Thomas Hodgkin, Richard Bright, and Sir James Paget all wrote extensively on ovarian neoplasms. In 1870, Heinrich Waldeyer, and later in that century, another German, Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel wrote important papers on the surface epithelial tumors. The latter was likely the first to refer to neoplasms now known as of 'borderline malignancy' and also wrote on pseudomyxoma peritonei and other topics. Their work was followed by that of Robert Meyer who made monumental contributions to gynecological pathology, including recognizing the Brenner tumor as a distinctive neoplasm and proposing the first classification of Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors (arrhenoblastomas). He also coined the term 'disgerminoma' (soon changed to dysgerminoma) for the ovarian tumor that had been described in detail by the French investigator Marcel Chenot 5 years after Chevassu had mentioned the tumor in his paper describing the seminoma. During the Meyer era other significant contributions were made by, among others, Howard C Taylor writing on the borderline tumors and John A Sampson writing on endometriosis and tumors, associated with it. In the second-half of the 20th century major contributions were made b...

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“…Butt and Arken,13 in I9I4, described a case of bilateral sarcocarcinoma in undescended testicles. Geist and Thalhimer,32 in reviewing the histopathology of 26 cases, found 20 cases of carcinoma, of which i6 were medullary and four adenomatous in type, and six cases in which teratoma was associated with carcinoma (adenomatous with medullary or papillary areas).…”

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