CARCINOMA SCROTUM - A RARE CASE REPORT

Carcinoma in the scrotum is a very rare occurrence in these days since the occupation related to its high incidence in earlier days were withdrawn. This disease has a very poor survival rate because of the late presentation, by the time metastasis would have occurred.Forty two years old male patient presented to our surgical OPD with ulceroproliferative lesion on right side of the scrotum with history of right orchidectomy three months back. He was also having urethrocutaneous fistula on the ventral surface of the penis. Total Scrotectomy and Emasculation with two centimetre margin clearance all around with primary closure and permanent Supra pubic cystostomy and bladder drainage was performed. Post operatively patient was advised adjuvanct chemotherapy and radiotherapy.Squamous cell carcinoma of the scrotum is the commonest histological variety of the malignancies of the scrotum. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice. Overall this malignancy has a poor survival rate