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• Case Report •
A case of leydig cell tumor misdiagnosed as seminomatous germ cell tumer by MRI
LI Shuxiong  LI Yunqing  LIN Jiaqin  LI Dongwei 

DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2025.08.020.


[Keywords] testis；leydig cell tumor；seminomatous germ cell tumer；magnetic resonance imaging；misdiagnosis

LI Shuxiong1, 2   LI Yunqing3   LIN Jiaqin4   LI Dongwei1, 2*  

1 Department of General Surgery, DongGuan SongShan Lake Tungwah Hospital, Dongguan 523808, China

2 Department of First Clinical Medical College of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524023, China

3 Reproductive Medicine Department, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang 524001, China

4 Department of Urology, DongGuan SongShan Lake Tungwah Hospital, Dongguan 523808, China

Corresponding author: LI D W, E-mail: ldw00696@163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

Received  2025-04-20
Accepted  2025-07-31
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2025.08.020
DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2025.08.020.

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