Malignant Spinal Cord Compression Syndrome as an Initial Presentation of Testicular Cancer

Table 1

Summary of the reported cases of MSCCS as an initial presentation of GCT in the English literature.

Author/year	Country	Age of presentation	Mechanism of spinal cord injury	Spinal level of metastasis causing cord compression	Histology	Treatment of MSCCS, in chronological order	Outcome, follow-up
Nelson and Ruffolo 1966 [16]	USA	63 years	Extradural compression	T9	Classic seminoma	Laminectomy	Death, 12 days
Arnold et al. 2000 [17]	USA	41 years	Extradural compression	T7	Mixed GCT	Laminectomy, unspecified CT	Good, 1 year
Yee et al. 2007 [18]	Canada	44 years	Extradural compression	T4	Classic seminoma	Steroids, EBRT 20 Gy/5 Fx, BEP	Good, 1 year
Salazar-Mejía et al. 2018	Mexico	24 years	Extradural compression	T11	Pure embryonal carcinoma	Steroids, EBRT 30 Gy/10 Fx, BEP	Death, 3 weeks

CT, chemotherapy; BEP, bleomycin/etoposide/cisplatin; EBRT, external beam radiotherapy.