MYXOFIBROMA OF THE SPERMATIC CORD, POSSIBLY NEUROGENIC

13 November 1937

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 109 (20) , 1623-1625
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1937.02780460033009

Abstract

Compared with the frequency of cysts of the spermatic cord, which are fairly common,¹tumors are quite rare. In 1934 Burr,²reviewing the literature on cord tumors, found a total of 219 reported cases, including two which he then reported. Two years later, however, Thompson,³again reviewing the literature on the subject, found a total of 216 cases after eliminating a few which he thought were subject to doubt. Burr classified the 219 growths on the basis outlined by Hinman and Gibson⁴as follows: lipomas, 58; embryomas, 47; fibromas, 28; sarcomas, 27; dermoid cysts, 21; connective tissue cysts, 14; angiomas, tumors, 6; unclassified, 6; myxomas, 5; myomas, 5; tumors of the wolffian body, 2; total, 219. Hinman and Gibson conclude that of all tumors of the cord, epididymis and testis, 90 per cent occur in the cord; of these fibroma constitutes about 11 per cent. It

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